> Am I going to be forced to write a local server that serves the > responses to requests for interacting with my vendor classes. Ugh.
Yes you're going to have to write server-side code, no you don't have to write a local server, jetty, tomcat, winstone (which is only ~150kB by the way) or any other servlet container will do > Surely there is a better way? I don't think so, short of finding an equivalent library tailored specifically ot be used as client-side GWT code Cheers, Salvador On Apr 19, 11:39 pm, venk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all - > > I will caveat this post by saying that I am new to GWT and relatively > new to web applications/java, having spent most of my programming > hours in a MS environment (most notably C#). But, I am having the > darnedest time trying to figure out how to do one thing. > > I have a .jar of compiled classes (sorry, don't know the right > terminology) that was provided by a vendor, i.e. there is little > chance I will get the original source or get a jar with the source > included. I would like to write a "hybrid" google-based app that > allows the user to use the classes in that file (assume it is > installed locally on all user machines) but also is deployed using the > google app engine. > > I am open to any way in which this can be accomplished. I have thought > I could have a "heavy" desktop-type app that does the interaction with > the vendor classes in the GAE/GWT framework, but that is proving > difficult. I am using the eclipse IDE with the google plugins. I also > thought maybe I could write a google desktop gadget using GWT to do > the local interaction. > > Am I going to be forced to write a local server that serves the > responses to requests for interacting with my vendor classes. Ugh. > Surely there is a better way? > > Thanks to all. > > -- V --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
