It's not about the lack of a plugin mechanism, it's about discomfort with an api that requires people to emit lines of java too much, and lack of time to clean it up.
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sep 9, 1:45 pm, "Konstantin.Scheglov" > <konstantin.scheg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If anyone wants to submit a patch to make it possible to subclass > > > UiBinderGenerator and tweak its parsers that way, s.t. you can provide > an > > > alternative <replace-with> rule for your custom subclass, I'd be in > favor of > > > that. Presuming Joel doesn't shoot me down. > > > > Hm... > > Replacing UiBinderGenerator means that at same time only one > > replacement can be used. > > So, for example if I use some widgets toolkit and it provides > > generator for its widgets, then I can not use generator of second > > toolkit. > > If you weren't dumbing down to Java 5, I'd suggest using > java.util.ServiceLoader to simply load "plugins" from the classpath: > http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.html > But sure it could be done with a new element in gwt.xml module > descriptors. > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
