What for?
-David
On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Bruno Busco wrote:
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
