just a side note on this Although GWT-RPC is the easy low threshold for someone coming from the java world SOAP, RMI (like me) two things that didn't fly well were:
1) GWT-RPC favors overspecifying the collection type. So it is better to say ArrayList > List > Collection in your interfaces. 2) It was difficult to share server side code without including GWT specific jars. So I had to create proxies for my SOAP services which was problematic. With Resty-GWT at least my server code can have multiple types of clients js, java, GWT etc. Vassilis On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 5:53:20 PM UTC+2, Paul Robinson wrote: >> >> >> On 13 Jul 2016 9:17 a.m., "Kay Pac" <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > 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. >> >> It's the serialisation that's the problem, so it will be gone in 3.0. >> JSON is a good choice. (I'm moving that way) >> > > The actual problem is not serialization per se, it is that the RPC > generator scans the whole classpath for subclasses of transferred classes > to generate their specific ser/deser code (taking into account their > CustomFieldSerializer if one exists). > RPC (thus probably Atmosphere) could be made to work (as annotation > processors) if they use another mechanism to determine what can be > transferred (e.g. annotations similar to RequestFactory's @ExtraTypes). > I believe Daniel Kurka said something along those lines a year ago when > first talking about those changes. The logical next question is: is there > anyone willing to make those changes and continue to maintain GWT-RPC? The > answer seemed to be (have been?) "at least that won't be Google", and this > is why people start to "panic". That does not mean RPC will be gone (that > doesn't mean it'll still be there either). > But let's concentrate on 2.8 for now. > > -- > 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. > -- Vassilis Virvilis -- 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.
