Converting the widget system to GWT would be a major strategic challenge. You would probably need an entirely new renderer that just sent the XML descriptions of screens to a mini-screen display application on the client. The client would then instantiate GWT widgets and bind them together with events that would execute the server side logic when they are clicked.
One major difference is the fact that GWT widgets have state in the sense of Swing or even JSF whereas OFBiz widgets do not. ----- "Adrian Crum" wrote: > It's a good thing we have themes - someone with enough time on their hands > could develop a theme that looks like that. ;-) > Someone suggested GWT two years ago and I took a look at it. From what I > recall, it requires some complicated and sometimes convoluted markup in order > to get the desired effects. > At around the same time, there was an effort in the project to reduce markup > and make it more CSS Zen Garden like. The CSS Zen Garden approach won, and > that's what you see in the project today. I'm still in favor of that > approach. > Btw, I wouldn't be opposed to having small changes made to the markup to make > styling a little easier. For example, we could have the menu widgets output > <div> elements inside the <li> elements to make it easier to style menu item > backgrounds. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO Brainfood.com [email protected] - http://www.brainfood.com - 214-720-0700 x 315
