On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Thomas Broyer <t.bro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 26 nov, 14:40, Raphael André Bauer <raphael.andre.ba...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just a simple best-practise question. >> >> We are using GWT 2.1, mappers, activities and views. Everything works nicely. >> >> But sometimes we want to use activities (aka presenters) and views >> without a mapper. We could switch from an activity back to good old >> presenter and a custom view interface that exposes eg. "Widget >> asWidget()" or so. >> >> But we could also stick to activities and their start(...) method. Of >> course the activity would not be managed and would have no life cycle. >> On the other hand it would be only a single programming model and we >> would not need to define our own view interface. > > I don't understand that last bit. Activities don't define any "view > interface" (Activity != MVP, contrary to what the doc says); any > Widget implements IsWidget.
That was misleading. Sorry. I meant our own "presenter" interface (aka activity). Nonetheless you answered my question correctly :) > >> Does anybody have an advice how to handle that "best"? > > If you go with the "Activity model", developers will expect their life- > cycle to be respected, which means adding tests that your "container" > is not breaking it. > If you don't use Activity, it'll be clear for the developer that the > life-cycle is different. > > Other than the life-cycle though, I can't find any difference between > the two approaches. Okay. thanks a lot for that answer Thomas. I think we are using the notion of using GWTs activities even if they are not lifecycle managed for the sake of simplicity. Cheers, Raphael > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-tool...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
