I would take a look at Groovy / Grails. It's very much like Ruby / Rails but with much tighter Java integration. They have plugin for easy GWT integration: http://grails.org/GWT+Plugin
This way you can use GWT-RPC + work in a Rails like enviroment. On Aug 30, 2:14 am, Sandman <[email protected]> wrote: > elpix1 wrote: > > I didn't have any experience with Java servers also, having worked > > mostly with Python, > > but using servlets with the GWT RPC model is very easy. > > I run my test GWT application with Tomcat and Jetty with no problems. > > I think any of these servers are OK for testing and even production. > > > I am not currently using any framework, but I am researching > > an ORM to use with my project (currently I am using standard JDBC). > > An ORM can really boost productivity but there is some issues using > > ORMs with GWT, since you can't transfer through RPC entity classes > > generated by the ORMs. These classes need to be converted > > to/from DTOs before RPC or you need to user some class > > converter (gilead, dozer). > > > See: > >http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/articles/using_gwt_with_hibernate.html > > > Regards, > > Thanks elpix1 and David for your replies. > > David, I will check out Winstone. It seems like a really cool program. > It seems like it could work for me, since I wouldn't have to disrupt my > existing setup. Discoveries like this make me really glad that I posted > this question to the group :) > > elpix1, your comment made me aware of some of the issues I need to watch > out for. I suspected that a framework might not really be necessary > since Java provides most functionality inherently. With Python for > instance, django makes communication with databases so easy that its > hard to resist using a framework such as it. But I guess Java's JDO > mechanism does similar things. > > Thanks a lot. Take care. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
