Hi everyone! I'm new to gwt, but quickly saw how dynamic it could be if done right, 'done right' being keywords. So, basically, I have Railo running, which loads alot like Tomcat. So, by placing my built war into webapps dir, up launches gwt.
This is great, but the problem is how to "page" different data representations, or "views" , if you will. So , one might have a Homepage, and then maybe a Profile page, or a Login screen. These all will have different html, obviously. Without coding the entire thing in gwt - which is my goal here - , how would I use this server side language as a template? I have a few ideas that may better explain this, than I can with words... Theory 1: Use URL Connections to execute Railo(ie coldfusion) code (or php, for purposes of better explaining this), and return an html "construct"/"template" containing div's with id's that can GWT can drop data into. Problem: This would be alot of overhead I would think.... more of a cluster-F really, since client is already connecting to server, and to have the server further execute code within it's same scope, well that's just retarted. Or so I imagine.... Theory 2: Use JSON to perform the same as theory 1, except use a cfsavecontent tag to store the "resulting page" from executing server side code... as a string. Problem: Seems inefficient, and needless - surely there's a better way. Theory 3: Use java.io to read a file, and simply Component.setContent (new HTML(szDataFromFile)); , for instance. Problem: Server side language doesn't execute.... Simplified.... I am just looking for some way to "design" my pages in server side language, and "enhance" them with GWT. I don't want to use GWT for the entire site design, because honestly, it's not rigid enough - alittle too Web 2.0, if that makes sense. I already have alot of content designed in ColdFusion, for all businness practicality. I don't want to have to redesign ALL of this in Java... that would just be a walk through hell and back. Any help would be more than greatly appreciated... Really not sure what the best option is for "templating" in gwt; an important consideration when designing a web page as interactive as this would be.
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