On Mar 20, 2008, at 4:35 AM, Philipp Bracher wrote:
- extJS is definitely worth it - we consider GWT-EXT 2.0 seriously
If you do decide to go with GWT-EXT 2.0, or any GWT-based solution, I can help you integrate the gwt build into the maven build if you would like. Although I'm probably not the world's leading expert on the subject, I do have experience using gwt in a maven-based project and I can help answer any questions on it.
One really good thing about the GWT front is that GWT 1.5 milestone 1 was released as a jar recently, so anyone wanting to use the nice features of GWT 1.5 (generics, annotations, etc) can do so without rebuilding the entire source tree. GWT 1.5 also makes it a lot easier to expose GWT methods to non-gwt modules (it was never hard, but now it is quite easy)
GWT 1.5 requires Java 1.5. The Java 1.5 is only required for the build, I believe - so it wouldn't be much different from the current situation where Java 1.5 is required to run the tests.
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors/ browse_thread/thread/a29d3cad41851250
Normally I would avoid building with pre-release software... but GWT 1.5 has been around a long long time and is already pretty stable. (You know how Google is with their "beta" products). Now that GWT 1.5 has a milestone out, it will likely not be long until it gets released - and starting out targeting it would be a good decision IMO since it would make your code "last longer"
Those are my two cents. Ryan Gardner
