Shaffer, explained it all. A little addition: Class.forName and Reflection related apis are not yet available as standard part of gwt. However you can use third party projects(again open source) to achieve most of what you are looking for.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gwtreflection/ Rakesh Wagh On Oct 27, 7:01 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > This is a standard question here, so I'm going to link to one of the > many responses in this forum (from January 2007) > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/threa... > > To summarize: GWT is client side/web browser code written in Java. > You use the standard Java development methodology and syntax with one > notable exception: the GWT compiler compiles all of this Java into > native Javascript/HTML/CSS. So the only true Java libraries that you > can import into a client side package are ones that the compiler can > convert into Javascript. java.sql.* is not one of them. And (nothing > official or binding here) but it seems highly unlikely that it ever > will. There are some very strict boundaries that a web browser has to > live inside of, and I would think that directly connecting to a > database from a web browser (which would be cool) isn't likely to > happen. Just like there isn't a mountain of javascript (my official > term for a library written in javascript) that connects to a database, > it's a limitation of the browser container that everything runs inside > of. > > The standard solution here, which is standard to most web browser > based products, GWT or otherwise, is to create a middle tier and > connect from there. GWT-RPC is a terrific way for GWT clients to > connect to Java middle tiers, using a syntax that is virtually the > same as any basic remoting type. Your middle tier lives on a web > server which is true blue 100% Java, and therefore would be able to > import the java.sql.* libraries. > > Hope this adds some clarity. > > Later, > > Shaffer > > On Oct 26, 12:46 am, tapan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi guys > > > can i use the java jre with gwt. > > please help. > > some of them which i require are > > > Class.forName > > java.sql.DriverManager > > java.sql.Statement > > > etc. > > > Please help --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
