GWT Community size ?

[Jonathan Aubuchon]

Hi all,

Does anyone know how big is the GWT Community size?

- Number of developpers who using it
- Number of websites who using it
- Number of business who using it

(Approximately...)

Thank you guys.

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[David Chandler]

Hi Jonathan,

There are a couple ways to gauge this. You can see the number of times each version of GWT is downloaded here:

http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list

This does not include downloads from Maven Central or Google Plugin for Eclipse, the sum of which is typically about the same as from the main downloads page.

Also, there are 27k members of this group, which continues to grow at ~10%+/yr. Based on downloads of recent versions, this represents perhaps a quarter of active GWT developers.

As for # of Web sites and/or businesses, we really don't know. We do know from interacting with the community that many, if not most, GWT applications are behind firewalls or paywalls, because GWT is especially well-suited for making desktop-like apps that run in a browser.

HTH,

/dmc

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[Jonathan Aubuchon]

Thank you David

[J.Ganesan]

On Oct 3, 8:58 pm, David Chandler <drfibona...@google.com> wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,
>
> There are a couple ways to gauge this. You can see the number of times each
> version of GWT is downloaded here:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list
>
> This does not include downloads from Maven Central or Google Plugin for
> Eclipse, the sum of which is typically about the same as from the main
> downloads page.
>
> Also, there are 27k members of this group, which continues to grow at
> ~10%+/yr. Based on downloads of recent versions, this represents perhaps a
> quarter of active GWT developers.
>
> As for # of Web sites and/or businesses, we really don't know. We do know
> from interacting with the community that many, if not most, GWT applications
> are behind firewalls or paywalls, because GWT is especially well-suited for
> making desktop-like apps that run in a browser.

Does this mean that GWT + App Engine is not popular ? If not, that
is really surprising. Given the fact that App Engine API and Gwt are
in java, one expects that Gwt + App Engine is really a compelling
combination to write cloud based applications, especially enterprise
applications.

J.Ganesan

[Kritic]

I think a lot of people are using GWT with a Spring back end.

Myself, I have only started to get into GWT development so I haven't tried any back end communication, but I suspect I'll be trying it with Spring or something similar.