Thanks guys for the encouragements !

Anybody could give feedback ? Anybody already tried to do this
already ?

On 17 juin, 01:33, Sky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Man, that just sounds kickass! Infinitely better than writing your
> parser code twice in two different languages and any time you fix a
> bug or add functionality needing to do it twice. Man, if that works
> that smoothly you guys will be sooo happy!
>
> Isn't that just exciting! woot :)
>
> On Jun 16, 2:06 pm, Sripathi Krishnan <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Laurent,
>
> > You actually have an interesting idea, something I have been thinking about
> > for a different context for sometime.
>
> > I haven't used ANTLR before, I prefer JAVACC. When I analysed javacc
> > generated code, most of it was plain java that GWT could easily convert to
> > Javascript. The only classes that needed modifications were the ones that
> > read from the File/InputSteam. In the case of javacc, they were just 2 java
> > classes that are standard across all javacc projects. So, it should be
> > possible to replace those classes with a client specific class that reads
> > from textarea.
>
> > I suspect when you analyse the antlr generated code, it will follow the same
> > pattern. So, it should be possible to parse your "language" on the client
> > side without having to make network calls. If latency/user-responsiveness is
> > an issue, its definitely a good thing to do.
>
> > --Sri
>
> > On 16 June 2010 21:54, Stefan Bachert <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi Laurent,
>
> > > I did not use antlr, yet. However, antlr generates java code and as
> > > far it generates ALL, the GWT compiler probably translates generated
> > > javacode to javascript.
> > > I would just give them a try.
>
> > > Stefan Bachert
> > >http://gwtworld.de
>
> > > On Jun 16, 3:02 pm, Laurent PETIT <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hello,
>
> > > > I must create a rich editor. We have a custom language, and our
> > > > customers will be able to edit "sentences" of this language in their
> > > > browser.
> > > > Now, on the server side, we already have antlr stuff to parse the
> > > language.
>
> > > > I'm contemplating whether I should try to reuse to the maximum the
> > > > existing stuff, at the (probable) cost of more client/server
> > > > communications to benefit from the parser's functionality (hopefully
> > > > the client side editor will be "structured") ;
> > > > or whether I should rewrite a parser (by hand or with the help of a
> > > > third party library which could run on GWT client code) for my client
> > > > side ...
>
> > > > Any comments / suggestions ?
>
> > > > Thanks in advance,
>
> > > > --
> > > > Laurent
>
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