I think we all have different priorities in using GWT. I'm using GWT since 2008 and worked on different internal GWT applications and a Online Shop ¹) based on Hybris and GWT. Two other GWT projects are work in progress, one should be released in October, the other one early next year.
2014 I stopped using RPC for new projects and switched to REST, so I will not miss it really. GWTP-RestDispatcher or RestyGWT feels nearly the same as using RPC and keeps server side independend of GWT. Widgets are something else. We all now, the integrated widgets of the GWT project made no real progress the last years, HTML5 features are missing (no placeholder, no required, no new input types, ...) and validation integration is non existing. I think most of us have used something else or build there own collection (like I did in ²)), so I would not really miss the internal Widgets, but would miss Widgets as base for own implementations and as base for the editor framework. Very useful in my point of view are UI-Binder, the editor framework and the validation framework (that's the reason why I've taken over the deprecated bean validation into my gwt-bean-validators ³) project and updated it to the validation-api 1.1.0 and hibernate-validator 5.4.1). In combination this provides the best form handling of all frameworks I know, and that's a core feature of all my applications. In combination with the GWTP MVP framework I really like working with (architecture details in combination with spring can be found on this wiki ⁴)). The other thing is code sharing between client and server, this makes it so easy to port functions from server to client side and provide offline functionality. ¹) https://www.tecparts.com/ ²) https://github.com/ManfredTremmel/gwt-mt-widgets ³) https://github.com/ManfredTremmel/gwt-bean-validators ⁴) https://github.com/ManfredTremmel/gwt-bean-validators-example/wiki -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/1508750.Hfzmf9uFlS%40thinkpad. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
