GWT for heavy traffic website

Question

Is it worth to use Google Web Toolkit for heavy traffic website (something like Youtube, Hulu). If not then what Java framework should be used?

Answer 1

What are you planning on doing with GWT? If you will be serving up huge video files, I don't think GWT will be much of a blip on your radar. Since GWT executes on the client side, it won't be putting any processor load on your servers, and the actual javascript files that are generated are compiled down to the bare minimum of code needed, and would be tiny compared to even one video download.

GWT is used for google's adsense management console, and for google wave. Is your site going to get more traffic than either of those? ;) With GWT 2.0 we should see even more performance gains as the optimization techniques get even better.

This IO session talks a bit about squeezing extra performance out of GWT.

Answer 2

As a part of evaluation of presentation layer frameworks, we performed load tests for the Google Web Toolkit. We used sample application DynaTable, shipped with the GWT. We deployed DynaTable application to Tomcat Server. We recorded test scripts using Grinder TCPProxy. The test methodology is described in this post.

http://jroller.com/galina/entry/google_web_toolkit_performance_test