Correct. I was assuming, as you have GWT, you would compile the JS with GWT, and then you would give the compiled JS to the people that want to use it (and don't have GWT). ...but I shouldn't assume.
On Monday, 29 December 2025 at 2:14:06 am UTC+11 Tim Macpherson wrote: > Thanks for your responses, GraalVM WASM is something to keep in mind but > easiest to use teavm for now, basic plumbing is straightforward. > Unfortunately Craig afaik to generate js from a GWT lib it has to be > compiled in a GWT app. > > Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=US_Acquisition_YMktg_315_SearchOrgConquer_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=US_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100002039&af_sub5=C01_Email_Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=0c38e4b0-a27e-40f9-a211-f4e2de32ab91&af_android_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail&listing=search_organize_conquer> > > On Sun, Dec 28, 2025 at 4:59 AM, Dmitrii Tikhomirov > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am the person who continues to maintain the J2CL Maven plugin. If you > need to build a JavaScript application and run it in a JavaScript > environment, you can look at how this is implemented here ( > https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-tools/tree/main/packages/serverless-workflow-diagram-editor) > > (this is an application that uses a Jakarta-like CDI framework, along with > JSON/YAML marshallers). > > It looks like the Google team is finishing work on adding support for > records, so I will be updating the entire stack soon to enable these > features > > At the moment, GWT is noticeably more stable than J2CL, so I would > recommend taking another look at it. However, if you really do not want to > go that route, you could also consider running a WASM application using > GraalVM. > > On Dec 27, 2025, at 1:55 PM, Craig Mitchell <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Isn't that what <packaging>gwt-lib</packaging> is designed for in GWT? ( > https://tbroyer.github.io/gwt-maven-plugin/usage.html ) > > Unless you're not running on a Java backend. So you'd need a npm package > created somehow. Not sure how to do that. > > On Sunday, 28 December 2025 at 8:33:42 am UTC+11 Tim Macpherson wrote: > > I want to provide client js that is logic only, no UI, I write it in > java because the tooling in typescript is not good enough. I need to > release this as pure js, it's that simple > > Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=US_Acquisition_YMktg_315_SearchOrgConquer_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=US_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100002039&af_sub5=C01_Email_Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=0c38e4b0-a27e-40f9-a211-f4e2de32ab91&af_android_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail&listing=search_organize_conquer> > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM, Colin Alworth > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It still isnt quite clear to me what you're asking for - can you be more > precise? > > That is, if you're writing d3 js code, the best way to make that available > to others is JS. Each Java-to-JS compiler first assumes that the next > developer is using Java, but each makes their own assumptions about how to > map JS ideas to Java, so there isn't a one-size-fits-all approach. > JsInterop types at least are mostly the same for both J2CL and GWT - but if > you have a user who doesn't use GWT, they probably also don't use Java in > the client at all? > > On Saturday, December 27, 2025 at 1:34:46 PM UTC-6 [email protected] > wrote: > > GWT works for me and I will always be using it in my own stack while it's > maintained, but I need to make some of my d3 js code and client java > surrounding it available for others who don't use GWT. Teavm is maybe best > tool for that. > > Yahoo Mail: Search, Organize, Conquer > <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=US_Acquisition_YMktg_315_SearchOrgConquer_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=US_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100002039&af_sub5=C01_Email_Static_&af_ios_store_cpp=0c38e4b0-a27e-40f9-a211-f4e2de32ab91&af_android_url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yahoo.mobile.client.android.mail&listing=search_organize_conquer> > > On Sat, Dec 27, 2025 at 7:17 PM, Colin Alworth > <[email protected]> wrote: > > "Best" is hard to define - what are your requirements? > > If GWT doesn't fit your use cases, it seems unlikely that J2CL will - can > you elaborate on what about GWT doesn't work for you? If anything, I've > found J2CL to be more picky than GWT in just about every way - more limited > options for emulation, more requirements for JsInterop, no JSNI/Generators, > smaller ecosystem and prior art for customizing the build (whether using > the maven plugin or the official Bazel build tooling). > > It does tend to produce slightly smaller and slightly faster output, and > does offer better integration with compiling plain JS sources in the same > build (with the requirement that this JS must be built to be safe to > compile by closure-compiler in ADVANCED mode). > > For a generally bigger set of JRE emulation (and much larger output > sizes), consider TeaVM or CheerpJ - both have their strengths. I don't have > a lot of experience with either, but I do find that for math-heavy apps, > TeaVM does a great job getting even better performance in some cases than > GWT or J2CL, and produces output much more quickly. It tends to do much > more poorly on string heavy (e.g. DOM manipulation). CheerpJ I have almost > no experience with, but excels at supporting nearly any JRE-compatible > code, and finding a way to make it work regardless of whether the browser > is a good place to run it. This is a huge advantage for "it doesn't matter > as long as it can run" cases - more and more it can be possible to run a JS > app that is hundreds of times what would have been acceptable a few years > ago. > > On Saturday, December 27, 2025 at 12:08:38 PM UTC-6 [email protected] > wrote: > > Can someone advise if it's the best tool for building js code from pure > logic front end java ? 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