On 12/8/09, Paul Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Vikas wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I know this is not possible in plain gwt, but I'm just curious to know
> > that is there any add-on tools by using we can translate swing
> > application to GWT compatible code?
> >
> > We feel there must be something because reason behind developing GWT
> > application in java is that already there are so many swing based
> > application which are now want to migrate web based.
> >
> > I've already tried AjaxSwing which is completely different framework.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Vikas
> >
> >
> No, and I doubt it would ever be possible in any meaningful way. Even if
> you ignore the way swing has direct access to the underlying windows via
> a per-platform awt implementation, you'd still have the problem that
> swing UIs have full java usage rather than a limited set of translatable
> classes. This means stuff like database access, socket code, messaging,
> multi-threaded code etc. You could never handle all of this.
>
> The whole thing has such a different mentality that it's hard to see how
> this would ever be achieved beyond very simple apps.
>
> Google have consistently said that the reason behind Java as their
> choice for GWT was the tools available for it. The fact that there are
> existing swing UIs is coincidental.
>
> Paul
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