On 20 juil, 03:15, jarrod <[email protected]> wrote: > I've spent some time looking through the new RequestFactory and > ValueStore packages in GWT 2.1-M2. I am excited to see data binding > and validation creeping into the core GWT code. However, I have a bit > of a concern that the current implementation is too specific to JPA- > based applications. > > Will it be possible to take advantage of the upcoming data-aware > widgets without using RequestFactory?
Which data-aware widgets are you thinking about? If it's the Cell-based widgets, then yes, absolutely; and without ValueStore either. If you're talking about EditorSupport, then it looks to me there's no dependency over RequestFactory either, only on DeltaValueStore, which is an interface so you're not bound to a specific implementation. AbstractRecordEditActivity has a dependency on RequestFactory, but it's just a "helper base class"; you can use EditorSupport within any view that implements RecordEditView, independently of AbstractRecordEditActivity. Last, but not least, AbstractRecordEditActivity has a dependency on RequestFactory only to retrieve a ValueStore/DeltaValueStore and make a syncRequest in the end in saveClicked; and again, RequestFactory is "just an interface", so you could provide your own implementation and you could then use AbstractRecordEditFactory if you liked. Sure it'd be a bit of work, but it seems to me it's possible. -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
