2009/8/4 Rob Heittman <[email protected]>

>
> I bet you were into the lovely EJB artifacts too?  Ha ha this is strangely
>> reminiscent.
>>
>
> No, I wasn't.  Really, I don't see the correlation.
>

Boiler plate, _almost_ duplicate interfaces anyone?  "Business methods
defined in the remote interface must be duplicated in the bean class"


> My feeling as a GWT developer is that overall GWT has been moving, from 1.6
> thru 2.0 trunk, to a position of being less confusing and more deterministic
> and predictable.  I like this.
>

Very true.  If I had time I would love to hack the gwt compiler to see what
kind of problems might occur if it generated continuation style js.


> I think, boiled down, my feeling is that the impedance mismatch between
> XmlHttpRequest and RPC continuations is just too steep to ever really
> abstract away successfully, so I worry that any effort in that direction
> would be bootless.  Mind, I would probably have said that several years ago
> about Java-to-JS compilation in general, so if anyone can prove my belief
> wrong, it's this gang here.
>

Yes I agree that the guys behind GWT change the way you think about client
side web dev which makes anything seem possible.  Maybe even the impossible.

Cheers,

John

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