There are multiple ways to do this. See these pages:
http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsJSNI.html http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideCodingBasicsOverlay.html GWT 2.8, if I remember correctly, will also introduce a new Elemental generator, so the Elemental jar will always be up to date. Vaadin also has an api generator for GWT. https://github.com/vaadin/gwt-api-generator On Monday, October 26, 2015 at 2:51:18 AM UTC-7, negora wrote: > > Hello: > > I code in both JavaScript and Java. I make my back-ends with Java whereas > I use JavaScript for the front-ends. Nothing new. However, for the last > years I aimed my career so much to Java, that I missed out many important > JavaScript libraries and projects. Instead, I always used my old custom > JavaScript libraries. Now I want to change that, but I got a little tired > of the dynamic typing, among other ugly things of JavaScript. That's why > I'm considering to move either to TypeScript or to GWT. > > In the case of GWT, I know that I'm "arriving" very late. There are some > people that even told me to stay away from it. However, I also want to hear > directly from people who still use GWT. > > I don't want too much abstraction of the DOM. Indeed, I want to have > absolute control over it if necessary. Could be GWT used that way, as a > "thin" layer over JavaScript? I read about Elemental, but it seems to be > very tied to WebKit and experimental. I also have read about GwtQuery. > Would it be what I need to manipulate the DOM, instead of Elemental? Is it > still maintained? Does it still receive new features? > > With this I don't mean that I'm not interested in using the GWT widgets. > It's the opposite really. But I want to be sure that, if I need it, I still > can do things at a lower level. > > Thank you. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
