Will the gwt serialization mechanism used in GWT-RPC remain? GWT object serialization has been plugged into the atmosphere (realtime communication/websockets) GWT extension. It would be useful to know if we should migrate away from the GWT serialization and towards JSON.
On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 3:53:18 AM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 11:54:11 AM UTC+2, Philippe Gonze wrote: >> >> Totally agree. GWT 3.0 without RPC would be GWT 3.dead for many of the >> current GWT developpers, >> >> For me GWT is "Web development based on Java expertise, with practically >> no other technology implications". Extremely powerful and pleasant. Seems >> that GWT 3.0 is announced as "no more GWT": >> > > From http://www.gwtproject.org/makinggwtbetter.html: “GWT’s mission is to > radically improve the web experience for users by enabling developers to > use existing Java tools to build no-compromise AJAX for any modern browser.” > Also pay attention to what GWT is NOT about. > GWT 3.0 as described in this thread would still follow this mission > statement. > Providing tools to do RPC, even if differently than today, would still > follow the design axioms. But RPC in itself is about making compromises on > AJAX use ("obscure" payload, asymmetrical payload because they were not > meant to be parsed by the same tools and in the same environments, > everything sent to the URLs, etc. all of this make it impractical at best > to use RPC along with, for example, service workers), and that will > eventually degrade the web experience for users. Moving away from RPC is > actually trading development "convenience" for a better user experience. > > >> Our plan will probably to stay with 2.8... >> > > And this is exactly why GWT 2.x and GWT 3 are expected to coexist for a > while. > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
