Restlet's GWT (Server) Extension, being just a wrapper around ServerServlet
that can also pass calls to the GWT Hosted Mode adapter, is one small class
file that has been in 1.1 milestone builds for almost a year now. My
company uses it in a number of large production and in-development
applications. These do not use Restlet-GWT API yet (though we are starting
to port), but use GWT's built in facilities or JSNI to talk to a
Restlet-powered server.
The Restlet-GWT API (the port of the core Restlet API to work under GWT 1.5)
was a much larger undertaking afflicted by a lot of design complexity, the
moving target of GWT 1.5, and requiring the wisdom and time of Jerome, the
Restlet project founder, to accomplish.
- Rob
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank you for the kind and speedy response, Rob.
> I intend to spend the week, and then some, on this subject, and would be
> happy to receive any guidance or code you can muster. In return, I can post
> my newcomer questions and results.
>
> I'm curious: how is it that the hosted mode Restlet GWT Extension is
> heavily exercised, but the Restlet-GWT API is not? And what is the
> difference again?
>
> Mark
>
> On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Rob Heittman wrote:
>
> Hi Mark, I've been working on a longish example ("Chesstlet") that pulls
> together a number of Restlet and GWT techniques, but this won't be ready
> until November, due to some commitments I have in early October that
> complicate my availability. In the meantime, maybe the best thing to do
> would be to pull together a small illustration based on the test case
> already in the Restlet source -- just beefing it up to do some useful things
> beyond hello, world. I will try to get that together (or ask someone else
> at the office to do so) in the next day or two.
>
> The Restlet-GWT API is still largely unexercised (as opposed to the Restlet
> GWT Extension, which is just the hosted mode wrapper for ServerServlet,
> which is very heavily exercised) so we are discovering all sorts of new
> issues as we try it out. So you should probably be working from a Restlet
> snapshot to pick up all the latest commits. I think the latest important
> thing was an infinite recursion that Thierry removed. Now that GWT 1.5 is
> final and we don't have to chase a moving target any more, it will be easier
> to stabilize this.
>
> - Rob
>
> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
>
>> Good day. I'm new here, but not new to Java and its supporting
>> technologies.
>>
>> I'm embarking on teaching myself GWT using Restlets, neither of which I
>> have programmed before, although I have read the documentation for each. I
>> know that at the time the Restlet-GWT code was released, a whopping 6 weeks
>> ago :-), there were no examples illustrating its use. Perhaps there are
>> snippets of examples the community can share now, some weeks after the
>> release. If you have such examples, I would be quite grateful to study
>> them, as would be, I'm sure, other newcomers to these subjects. I am
>> particularly interested in running the server side using the Restlet NET
>> connector.
>>
>> All the pieces are in front of me; at this point a few well placed
>> examples would help bring it all together.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>
>
>
