Without the original source, this will be a rewrite. At best, GWT- generated JavaScript is helpful for debugging IFF it was generated with output style detailed or pretty. Even in this scenario, it's not practical to attempt to reverse-engineer the original Java source. And there's almost no chance that's what you have; it's almost certainly generated with output style obfuscated, which makes it completely indecipherable.
On Jun 22, 2:52 pm, Nathan Klatt <n8kl...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't have much hope for this but is there any way to recover something > reasonably approaching the original source of a GWT project given the > generated class, html, JavaScript, etc files? > > A client has given us the generated web application but does not have access > to the original source and the original developers are unavailable. (Yes, > this makes me nervous and, no, I don't know the full circumstances, but I'm > not the one calling the shots here.) > > If we can get it to a working state, we will probably continue pressing on > with it as a GWT application. Otherwise, we will write it from scratch which > means back to the PHP dungeon for me. > > I have played around with decompiling the class files but I suspect a > significant chunk of the client code remains hiding in the JavaScript, is > that correct? How difficult will that be to replicate? > > Can anyone offer some hope here? -- 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-toolkit@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.
