Thanks Tom, QxWT looks great. Does it leverage SWT skills ? :-P

But the table widget looks a bit slow if compare to SmartGWT...
Any plan to support masked input ? I found out PrimeFaces and SmartGWT
supported that. That great....

Thanks again

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Ivan Ooi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sure any body still remember this slide, ha! I accidentally found
> this in my drive when doing cleaning.
>
> http://www.eclipse.org/resources/resource.php?id=501
>
> <http://www.eclipse.org/resources/resource.php?id=501>Is a slide by Silenio 
> Quarti
> and Steve Northover about future of SWT. It look like UFaceKit heading to
> that direction..
>
> It look like RWT are xwindow like kind of design. round trip between client
> and server.
> This look like similar to Echo framework 1st version and they changed that
> in version2, some things similar to GWT. you can write your logic in Java
> and compile that to js or in pure js.
> http://echo.nextapp.com/site/
>
> XWT are not SWT and that for sure as we can't leverage Java skills or I
> should said SWT skills..
> but quite complete, including designer. that really a wow. Great!
>
> Thanks
>
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Ivan Ooi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>    Thanks for your reply. It looks great. However I found out the speed of
>> grid are a bit slow compare to SmartGWT.
>> Can we write client logic in Java and let the compiler translate that to
>> JavaScript ? some things like GWT.
>>
>>    j2s looks good as well. only the UI looks a bit Win9x.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:34 AM, RĂ¼diger Herrmann <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> On 09.02.2010 00:37, Ivan Ooi wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>>   Thanks for the reply. sorry about that. Ya, RAP are filling the gape
>>>> for this area. Sorry, I forgot about RAP project. This is great....
>>>> About RAP, Can I simply use RWT instead of RCP ? Sorry for my stupid
>>>> questions...
>>>>
>>> Put simply, you can use RWT instead of SWT and (with some limitations)
>>> let the RCP/e4 workbench run on top of it.
>>> See here for a more detailed introduction to RAP:
>>>  http://eclipse.org/rap/introduction.php
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks again! Good to hear that SWT now exist in Web platform as well.
>>>> Best is it use back Java language.
>>>>
>>>> Oh ya! can I use Java in RWT client side for logic ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and Best Regards,
>>>> Ivan
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Benjamin Muskalla
>>>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>    Hi,
>>>>
>>>>    as Lars already pointed out, the RAP project already allows you to
>>>>    single-source your existing code to bring your RCP application to
>>>>    the web (see eclipse.org/rap <http://eclipse.org/rap> ). The
>>>>
>>>>    problems Tom mentioned are real, but only some of them. Eg. the
>>>>    event-loop is part of RAP for several releases and has proven to
>>>>    work efficiently in a server-centric environment. Operating system
>>>>    resources are available too (eg. Fonts, Cursors, etc). The only
>>>>    missing part is a proper GC implementation which heavily relies on
>>>>    the capabilities of modern browsers but depending on your task at
>>>>    hand you could use the RAP theming to customize the look and feel of
>>>>    the application (eg. roundend corners or gradients).
>>>>
>>>>    Hope that helps,
>>>>      Ben
>>>>
>>>>    Ivan Ooi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>        Hi,
>>>>
>>>>           But.... we can't port our existing code over :-( at least in
>>>>        certain percentage or degree .. :-(
>>>>        Thanks
>>>>
>>>>        On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:33 AM, <[email protected]
>>>>        <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]
>>>>
>>>>        <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Tom Schindl
>>>>         > <[email protected] <mailto:
>>>> [email protected]>
>>>>        <mailto:[email protected]
>>>>        <mailto:[email protected]>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         >
>>>>         >> Hi,
>>>>         >>
>>>>         >> Doing a full SWT-Port for the Web is a very hard task because
>>>>            some of
>>>>         >> the concepts in SWT can't be emulated easily on the browser:
>>>>         >>
>>>>         >> * Event-Loop: Todays browser though HTML5 brings webworkers
>>>> are
>>>>            still
>>>>         >>  single threaded and so you can't e.g open blocking dialogs
>>>>        like you
>>>>         >>  do in SWT => SWT would have to introduce API with callbacks
>>>> so
>>>>         >>  that one could write single-source code.
>>>>         >>
>>>>         >>  An example might make this clear:
>>>>         >>
>>>>         >>  Today:
>>>>         >>  ----------8<----------
>>>>         >>  MessageBox msg = new MessageBox(parent,SWT.ICON_ERROR);
>>>>         >>  msg.setText("I'm the message");
>>>>         >>  msg.open();  // Blocking call
>>>>         >>  System.out.println("I'm running after dialog closed");
>>>>         >>  ----------8<----------
>>>>         >>
>>>>         >>  In Future:
>>>>         >>  ----------8<----------
>>>>         >>  MessageBox msg = new MessageBox(parent,SWT.ICON_ERROR);
>>>>         >>  msg.setText("I'm the message");
>>>>         >>  msg.open(new Runnable() {
>>>>         >>    public void run() {
>>>>         >>      System.out.println("I'm running after dialog closed");
>>>>         >>    }
>>>>         >>  });
>>>>
>>>>            It is exactly one of benefice of using XWT: physical
>>>>        separation between
>>>>            event handling and UI. XWT can manage the both cases
>>>>        transparently.
>>>>            We can
>>>>            define the event handling policy (sync, async and delayed
>>>>        async) between
>>>>            declarative UI and event handling based on Java Handling,
>>>> Bundle
>>>>            service,
>>>>            web service etc.
>>>>
>>>>            yves
>>>>
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