I hope we can also avoid the other extreme: GWT hijacked by developers of commercial libraries, trying to keep GWT as basic as possible, so that their libraries look even more attractive in comparison. I exaggerate to make a point, I know they are good people :)
I would love to see a unified marketplace for GWT widgets and extensions, both open-source and commercial, with demos, reviews and ratings. Currently there are a lot of projects that offer useful additions to "core" GWT, but it's hard to see how many people are using each one, and what is their experience. I guess many developers spend a lot of time searching the web and this forum for a TimePicker widget, an improved DatePicker, a good RichTextToolbar, a time zones solution, a grid with spreadsheet-style functionality, a grid with expandable rows, etc. etc. A single marketplace can really make GWT more attractive, in my opinion, especially to developers who are new to the platform. On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 1:06:08 PM UTC-4, Chris Lercher wrote: > > Focus on reducing compile times even more, fixing all bugs, making it more > extendable (e.g. by removing some unnecessary private modifiers, removing > static state, ...), improving support of Java core libraries (and things > that are close, like Guava, Joda, ...), improving some basic widgets - but > don't impose the specialized concepts of Vaadin, GXT, ... (which absolutely > do have their place, in their own frameworks!) on GWT itself. That's > actually the only worry I currently have about GWT's future (Note: I > believe it will turn out well). > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/CzWW1EtxNfYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
