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Three RIA Platforms Compared: Adobe Flex, Google Web Toolkit, and OpenLaszlo
The defining characteristic of any RIA is that it has a stateful client that is (or should be) platform and browser independent. Thin-client web applications grew from the need to provide applications with more reach, easy access to server side data, and to alleviate the pain of having to install and configure thick client software. Thin-client web applications remain a great way to accomplish these goals. However, with the advent of these new RIA platforms, developers now have all the reach of a traditional thin-client web application with many of the useful characteristics of thick-client applications, such as the ability to maintain state on the client.
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Yeah you are right GWT is poor man's Flex.

After using GWT on two projects I am done with creating UI using Java.

Best combo is Flex + ROR or Flex + Java (server side rules no question about that)

Otherwise Appcelerator sounds great for page level RIA.

Overall Flex has the upper hand - not only has Flex Builder's price dropped (250, and don't forget that you get what you pay for with the free alternatives, ya spoiled devs...), but it's not fair to say Flex is "less flexible" on platform. You're saying it's not flexible because it only runs on the Flash 9 "platform", yet when comparing GWT's platform compatibility, you switch the definition of "platform" to the web browser (I guess). Problem is, Flash/Flex runs on that same platform, and arguably runs BETTER because it doesn't care about the browser or the OS, unlike JavaScript/Ajax. Flex is running in the "Flash VM" so it obtains platform independence quite well with that in mind. GWT... might be "pretty good", but it's basically the poor man's Flex.


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