By following the approach that Fred outlined, does that create multiple .js files and do they only get downloaded when the main module starts to make use of the other modules?
On Jul 13, 12:49 pm, Fred Sauer <[email protected]> wrote: > Khoa, > You can compile multiple modules into a single GWT output. This is in fact > preferable since you get many savings w.r.t. script size which affect > execution time and download time. > > You can have a single module which inherits all the modules you wish to > include on your page. You then compile this single module. > > Fred > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:56 AM, Khoa Ngo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > I would like to decouple my application into multiple GWT modules. I > > use a main module to layout the UI structure: > > > <module rename-to='main'> > > <inherits name='com.google.gwt.user.User' /> > > <entry-point class='com.mycompany.MainWindow' /> > > </module> > > > The MainWindow contains a MenuBar with a "Home" submenu and the > > getMenuBar() method that returns the menubar for child modules to > > reuse. > > > Then I would like to create 3 child modules for Articles, Products, > > Contacts. > > > <module rename-to='articles'> > > <inherits name="com.google.gwt.user.User" /> > > <inherits name="com.mycompany.MainWindow" /> > > <entry-point class="com.mycompany.articles.Articles" /> > > </module> > > > The Articles class will getMenuBar() and add a submenu "Articles" into > > it. > > > <module rename-to='products'> > > <inherits name="com.google.gwt.user.User" /> > > <inherits name="com.mycompany.MainWindow" /> > > <entry-point class="com.mycompany.products.Products" /> > > </module> > > > The Products class will getMenuBar() and add a submenu "Product" into > > it. > > > ... > > > The problem is that, I can't group 3 modules above into one > > application. If the html page includes 3 generated javascript files, I > > get 3 submenu "Home" in the page. Because I have main.js that renders > > "Home", and two sub modules articles and products that also renders > > "Home" since it inherits from the main. > > > If I just include articles.js then "Home" isn't duplicated, but I loss > > the products.js. > > > Anybody please lets me know if I can design my application following > > such way. > > > Thanks and Best Regards, > > Khoa > > -- > Fred Sauer > [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
