Hi Rob,
This would be a very valuable tool! Currently, I dont have much time for help beside maybe some testing. Hope others will find time to support you. If you feel like Restlet SVN would be a good home for this effort, we could create a new project in the Restlet Incubator: your call. Best regards, Jerome Louvel -- Restlet ~ Founder and Lead developer ~ <http://www.restlet.org/> http://www.restlet.org Noelios Technologies ~ Co-founder ~ <http://www.noelios.com/> http://www.noelios.com De : Rob Heittman [mailto:[email protected]] Envoyé : mercredi 26 août 2009 05:40 À : [email protected] Objet : Request for collaborators: Restlet-GWT Eclipse Plugin Hi all, The Google Eclipse plug-in has become -- since 1.6/1.7 and now moving on into 2.0 -- the de facto way to spawn a new GWT application for many people. For reasons that should be obvious, the Google Eclipse plugin makes it very easy to create an RPC-based GWT app that talks to Google App Engine. All of the plumbing -- including JDO-to-BigTable via DataNucleus magic -- is done for you. Unfortunately, the style of app auto-plumbed by the Google Eclipse plug-in is not very friendly to the use of GWT with Restlet and arbitrary (non Google, not tightly coupled) server side applications. In some sidebar discussions with Googlers, I have gotten the impression that the Google Eclipse plug-in will not diverge from this pattern any time soon; it is, after all, funded as a vehicle to encourage adoption of the entire Google ecosystem. I plan to have my folks dash off an alternative plugin that makes it equally easy to create GWT plugins for any REST styled server. This would set up a Restlet-based proxy to your choice of server back ends, and plumb the application with your choice of GWT core JSON, XML, and/or Restlet-GWT 2.0 clients. I already have much of the code for this in the form of utility scripts we use to get our work done at the office. If anybody else working in GWT with REST sees utility to this, feel free to post here or email me directly -- would be happy to get you involved at whatever level you feel comfortable with. Conversely, if you already are down the path to such a plugin and I can just throw our existing bits into your mix, that would be great too. I'm aiming for this to release at the same time as Restlet 2.0 final to better encourage REST adoption in the GWT community. This isn't an official Restlet thing yet -- Jerome and I haven't even discussed it yet, as we've both been stupid busy in our respective corners -- but it would be neat if it could someday be one. - R ------------------------------------------------------ http://restlet.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=4447&dsMessageId=2399314
