Dear contributors:
In my opinion there is a lot of stuff in our site which is obsolete, or is
not useful or even could confuse new developers.
I also spoke with Julien and he agrees that we should remove many of the
entries, so we want open a thread before in the mailing list to get some
feedback from you.
Although we can remove those page totally from the site, I think it should
be fine if we remove links from our TOC, so as they start being removed
from crawlers, but we don't break external links.
These are the items I consider to be removed:
* Tutorials -> AJAX Communication.
- Introduction: is quite trivial and most people knows about ajax.
- RPC: it's an old protocol
- JSON: it's a tedious task and makes the user feel that JSON in GWT is
laborious, it says nothing about autobeans, or many popular gwt libraries
widely used.
- Cros-site: it's out dated since does not say anything about modern
CORS
- JSON php: I don't think so many people are interested on php
I think everything here is obsolete or confusing. The only thing to
maintain could be RPC, but
So in my opinion we could either remove all points here, or just
maintain the RPC section, picking up some paragraphs from the introduction,
adding a disclaimer about it is a former protocol, and noticing that there
are many other 3party options nowadays.
* Tutorials -> jUnit testing
We could remove this, since we already have a doc about junit, and we
don't have to maintain this page which is outdated and a complex section
for beginners.
* Tutorials -> GAE Deploy
I don't think we should maintain it. Half of the tutorial is about how
to setup a GAE project and how to use some stuff in server side. I think
most of our audience might not being using GAE and there is plenty of info
about how to deal with GAE in other forums.
* Resources -> Presentations
Everything here seems outdated 9/10 years ago, probably we should link
or embed recent GWT events like GWT.create or GWTconf, but I think it's
better to remove this section until we have something better.
* Resources -> Articles
- GWT & Hibernate, is it still valid ?
- Memory Leaks, is it still relevant ?
- GWT iPhone, imo definetively should be removed.
* Resources -> Case Studies
Probably we should disable this until we add some modern case studies
because it seems like nothing happened in GWT since 2011
* Resources -> Developer Spotlight
I don't see so much value here right now, Link to submit more stuff is
broken, linked gallery does not work anymore, project list is a query to
google code, and videos are very old.
I volunteer to remove all those entries after your feedback
Thanks
- Manolo
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