Hi Marius,

Sorry I can't share the code as it isn't open source, however it isn't
that hard to do - just take a look at the RequestBuilder class.

Rob

On Aug 10, 10:59 am, "marius.andreiana" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Would you share a sample project (full source code) using REST APIs
> from plain GWT?
>
> Thanks all for your feedback.
>
> On Aug 10, 12:40 pm, Rob <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I have developed a large app using GWT-Ext, unfortunately the
> > developers of GWT-Ext then dumped it and switched to Smart-GWT. I can
> > see their reasons for doing this (Ext-JS library version they used had
> > some shortcomings) but it has left me a few problems. As a result of
> > this I started evaluating how best to migrate away from GWT-Ext. This
> > involved looking at the alternatives.
>
> > My preferred option was to go for a pure GWT approach mainly because
> > you no longer have to worry about working around problems in a wrapped
> > JavaScript library - debugging these type of issues is not easy.
> > Unfortunately the current pure GWT widgets just aren't good enough, so
> > I have had to postpone any migration for the moment.
>
> > Anyway to get back to the point I think that although the hybrid
> > approach may be tempting in the short term, you will just be storing
> > up long term support problems.
>
> > The other option that I haven't fully explored yet is the GXT (Ext-
> > GWT) approach, this is a pure GWT version of the Ext-JS library. The
> > only issue I have with this approach is that it requires a commercial
> > licence.
>
> > As to your REST question, I make extensive use of this now from plain
> > GWT and have no issues with it at all - in fact I've now started using
> > it instead of GWT-RPC simply because it means that our other clients
> > can then easily make use of the various services our server provides.
>
> > Rob
>
> > On Aug 10, 10:03 am, Paul Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > gwt-dnd works very well - you probably shouldn't use the fact that dnd
> > > is provided by a 3rd party library as an argument not to use GWT. I've
> > > not used REST, so don't know if the same would apply there, but it may.
>
> > > Good reasons for using GWT include:
> > > - it's in java, so you get all the java tools (good IDEs, debugging,
> > > refactoring etc)
> > > - debugging in java in your target browser is worth quite a lot
> > > - it generates highly optimised javascript
>
> > > I believe that with SmartGWT you lose the code splitting ability for the
> > > javascript parts of their library. I don't know how viable the hybrid
> > > approach you've mentioned is - check whether their widgets are
> > > compatible with vanilla gwt widgets.
>
> > > Paul
>
> > > marius.andreiana wrote:
> > > > Hi,
>
> > > > We're working on a large project, which has the back-end is written in
> > > > a non-Java technology, with REST APIs. We're looking for a framework
> > > > to replace the current UI.
>
> > > > I did a brief analysis of using GWT:
> > > >https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=16rQknO-r3ZqfMbuIl0R52OnFcWB...
>
> > > > I'm looking to get this group's feedback before I present my findings
> > > > to the team. What do you think?
>
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Marius

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