There are, arguably, more than enough ways to slice and dice with Modules and EntryPoints and HTML host files, and quite a bit of subtlty among some of the choices. I was arguing above in favor of a simple model to get started. Worrying about optimizing (which includes caching) later if at all.
Walden On Aug 27, 12:55 pm, "Ian Bambury" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can have more than one entry point in an application and it will make no > appreciable difference to the compile time, caching, compression, reuse or > deployment time > > Same goes for splitting your application into different modules. > > What *will* make a difference is if you produce different versions of the > application for different situations > > Ian > > 2008/8/27 jhulford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > On Aug 27, 7:49 am, walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sam, > > > > It's possible (and documented in the archives of this list somewhere) > > > to use a single EntryPoint to instrument multiple HTML pages with > > > GWT. The mechanism is to have the EntryPoint code discover which HTML > > > document it is running in, and then switch on that. But that's > > > probably premature optimization in your case, and I would avoid it for > > > now. Simpler to create an EntryPoint/Module for each page you > > > currently have, and use Module inheritance to reuse code. > > > You're not going to get the full benefit of caching / compression / re- > > use by doing that though. Each different entry point / module will > > result in a separate set of javascript files. There's definitely a > > trade-off in that 1 separate module per page is easier to maintain, > > but using 1 monolithic module will more than likely get you a better > > user experience. You'll also increase your deployment compile times > > quite a bit doing many different entry points. > > -- > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
