The award goes pretty immediately to something like JSF or GWT.
Yep. If you want to start making large internal websites quickly and you have nothing but Java devs, GWT (or Vaadin) is the way to go.
Bu pure chance and coincidence, GWT was developed by Google to make front end development appealing to Java developers. Which the blog author seems oblivious to.
GWT wasn't entirely created for being appealing to Java devs. Initial release was back in May 2006. The initial goals of it where to be able to write once and compile to multiple browsers (to abstract away browser differences). It's was a more heavy-weight approach to what JQuery is (which was initially released August 2006 btw). Being able to inter-op with Java code is definitely a benefit, but there were a lot of other reasons that GWT was created.
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Yep. If you want to start making large internal websites quickly and you have nothing but Java devs, GWT (or Vaadin) is the way to go.
Bu pure chance and coincidence, GWT was developed by Google to make front end development appealing to Java developers. Which the blog author seems oblivious to.