> I have no opinion so far since I've not used GWT yet. > > My only opinion: make sure to choose a framework that has a good > community (# of different committers), active (check mailing list > activity), good support (check mailing list activity), and that is the > de facto choice of people using GWT. > > However before changing, it seems that GWT TK support GWT 1.4, see > http://groups.google.com/group/gwt-tk/browse_thread/thread/8025767946742c52
Is a nightly build with no planned / announced release ok to use as dependency in a platform module? However, it seems that gwttk does not match all the the framework requirements you have mentioned above so it might not be a bad idea to get rid of it anyway... > > Thanks > -Vincent > > On Feb 26, 2008, at 11:20 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi devs, >> >> We have planned the GWT 1.4 upgrade for the next XWatch milestone at >> the >> end of march. For this, we need to make a decision regarding the web- >> gwt >> dependencies (for the moment, the xwiki gwt dialogs rely on the gwt-tk >> library that does not yet have a release for gwt 1.4) so we must >> choose >> from: >> - using another library to provide this functionality, particularly >> the >> MyGwt library >> pros: nice looks and good API + the possibility of using the library >> components in including projects. >> cons: code changes required by the clean switch (updating all >> involved >> classes to use library API instead of GWT API), the lack of a maven >> repository with all available MyGwt versions (only 0.5.0 rc). As well, >> while testing, I experienced a couple of rendering issues (caused, >> seemingly by the use of the strict or xhtml DTD). >> - using the native gwt modal dialogs introduced in 1.4: >> pros: not styled (we totally control the styling process and can >> build an >> uniform look); widgets consistency, at least at this level. A big >> advantage is that the web-gwt module will not depend on any other >> library >> anymore. >> cons: not styled, the usual GWT API (which can be poor in some >> situations); GWT also has some problems caused by the standard mode >> interpretation in browsers (caused by the doctype declaration) but in >> this situation the code seems to be stable. >> >> What do you think? > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
