Re: GWT vs JSF vs ZK vs REST+JS
Lew proposed:
Hypertext is not an essential feature of Web apps. That it's an app
and that it is accessed via the Web are all you need.
Tom Anderson wrote:
Okay, seems reasonable to me. By that definition, applets, Flash, and
JWS are all web apps.
Lew wrote:
Absolutely, although the application delivered by JWS need not be.
Tom Anderson wrote:
As in it could also run standalone? Or something else?
As in it could run standalone, yes.
Lew wrote:
Web services fall under the "Web application" rubric also.
Tom Anderson wrote:
You reckon? I think of web services as just another kind of RPC (even
REST), and whilst they may well be used by web apps, they aren't web
apps on their own.
I should have said more properly, "Applications that use web services fall
under the 'Web application' rubric also."
The point being that such applications may have a Swing interface, or other
non-web-based UI but use web services to support their logic, e.g., for lookups.
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Lew
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