It seems opentaps is going to use GWT. Shouldn't we consider using it? -Bruno
2009/2/2 Jeroen van der Wal <[email protected]> > Dear Harmeet, > > Your GWT approach sounds promising. Could you share more details with > us on how you did it and perhaps supply some code? > > Thanks, > -Jeroen > > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bilgin Ibryam <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > >
