GWT is just a toolkit. You can do whatever you want. Big applications without good arch seems always be a developers nightmare eventually. So I think problem anywhere but not in the toolkit.
P.S. It is really hard to find your questions in text. Maybe its a good idea to list them? 2010/1/13 Hugh Acland <[email protected]> > Hi, > > I have been experimenting with GWT for a few weeks now and am very > impressed. Especially with 2.0 and now that Netbeans plugin is fully > functional. Works like a treat! However, I have yet to pin down > exactly what GWT should be used for. As far as I can tell it is > primarily for building rich internet <b>applications</b> which will be > made available to subscribers through the ubiquitous browser and most > often through secure logon. I can see the power of using GWT in this > way. > > For the past few years I have been quick to ridicule anyone who wanted > to build web-apps for use in a browser. Anything more complicated than > the most basic application soon became a complete nightmare to > implement and sometimes actually functionally impossible. I wrote one > such app for a client who wanted the 'user experience' to be as good > as a standard desktop VB/Swing application. It didn't matter how much > I protested, my pay cheque was dependent upon me complying with his > wish. So I hacked together a really nasty bunch of Servlets with a > gazillion 'out.write('<br>...html, html, html </br>')' lines. The > whole thing was really, really grubby and a real pain to maintain. > > Now some might say that I could have used JSP/JSF/tags blah blah but > seriously?!! I love Java and all things J2EE except for the God-awful > presentation layer. It is unnatural. It is freakish hell. So GWT comes > along and looks just the ticket! So am I right in saying that GWT > should not be used for mickey-mouse JS? And that it really is intended > for serious hard-core browser-based apps - which may also have a > standard desktop version running off the same server business logic? > > One other thing. I have fallen in love with a project called Ape (Ajax > Push Engine) - www.ape-project.org To me, all my dreams will have come > true if I can integrate Ape into a GWT-based web-app. I can already > hear the cash tills ringing as this is the ultimate missing brick in > true browser-based applications. Has anyone managed to get the two > playing nicely together? Wouldn't it be so cool to have a real time > update (pushed) data into a GWT (or ExtJS) grid? That would really > float my boat so I would love to hear if this has been achieved yet.. > > Thanks for reading and if you can I would welcome answers and comments > Cheers > Hugh > > -- > 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > > > -- Regards, Alexander--
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