title: Are jQuery and GWT comparable frameworks?
body: <p>At work there's a bit of discussion around what client side framework we should use for our front end web applications. Currently it's a showdown between GWT and jQuery and I'm kind of on the fence but leaning towards jQuery.</p>
  
  <p>From what I can tell, GWT and jQuery are trying to solve different problems but are compared to each other because they both end up existing in the web applications space.</p>
  
  <p>I suspect that if this is the case, then comparing the two may be fruitless so what I'm trying to get my head around is if comparing jQuery to GWT is even an apples to apples comparison in the same way that jQuery and ExtJS can be compared, or would it be more beneficial for our team to ask certain questions of our application and use the answers to determine which framework is a better fit for us?</p>