Hi Harmeet,
Can you show any demo or POC code for gwt integrated with ofbiz?
Do you need to compile and deploy javascipt files in ofbiz after every
change in the screens?
Thanks in advance
Bilgin
On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Harmeet Bedi wrote:
There are a few libraries that are rich with widgets in GWT that can
be applied. We started with gxt : http://extjs.com/products/gxt/.
Some other good candidates are smartgwt ( http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/
) and default GWT toolkit and associated google projects have some
decent widgets too. (GWT is under apache license so compatible).
It would be very nice if Ofbiz team can consider more GWT. We could
provide code.. developer help etc. to promote this.
We could start with creating a demo that you can see and see if you
want to evaluate this direction more. I feel GWT + HTML is a very
good choice for people writing java servers.
GWT theoretically is just a mechanism where you write java code and
that is generated into javascript and dom manipulation, but it is
much more.
- Strong typing in java, debugger support makes it far more
productive and reliable to create rich applications.
- Due to better approach applied with GWT to rich javascript/ajax/
dhtml applications.. one can now write much more complex user
interfaces. i.e. take a leap in rich web application capabilities.
i.e. write an entire webpos in gwt vs. very hard and buggy to write
one entirely in javascript.
- Can retain HTML as the frame of application and gwt widgets can
contain html. GWT and ftl templates can play together. So low
barrier of entry, simple nature of web 1.0 is retained.
Harmeet
