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When should I not use DomUI?
DomUI can be used for most most applications, but is less suited for the following:
- DomUI can be styled at will, but if your goal is to create a flashy piece of eye-candy of only 4 pages then DomUI might not be the best for you.
- The statefulness of the UI means that developers are extremely productive and can make lots of complicated forms in a short time. But "No pain, no gain": this means UI's written in DomUI use more server resources. The design goal for DomUI was to support 1000 simultaneous users on a single piece of hardware. This does not mean that your app cannot grow beyond that! But you need more hardware (more machines) to support more users. If you're writing the next ebay or Google, and have to serve 10.000+ simultaneous users per server then DomUI might be less useful.
The design criteria for DomUI value developer productivity over hardware costs.
Where can I get DomUI?
- The code was released on January 28, 2011 using the LGPL 2.1 license. This allows commercial use without having to open-source your application too. In return we ask only that you return fixes and additions to the DomUI code itself.
- I am still busy adding documentation and tutorials. In the meantime: ask questions if you have them by becoming a member of one of the mailing lists:
- domui-announce@googlegroups.com for announcements
- domui-users@googlegroups.com for users of DomUI
- domui-devel@googlegroups.com when you're developing for DomUI itself
- The project is maintained on Github. Here you find the code, branches, binary releases and the bug tracker.
- There is a plugin for Jetbrains' IntelliJ Idea IDE that helps with developing DomUI applications.
This site contains the documentation for the code, tutorials to help you with learning and a FAQ for those questions that are frequently asked.
Next page: a developer list of facts about DomUI