Re: Architectural ideas for a multi-app/module project

2010-04-08 Thread Olivier Monaco
Hi Jon, As you see in the Inter-frame communication, we has the same requierement.We choose the iframe solution to allow integration of external applications.Yes, it's not the best way. Yes, there will be some problem with the history. But we try many other solutions without success. I think you

Architectural ideas for a multi-app/module project

2010-04-06 Thread Jon Vaughan
Hi all. I'm beginning to build a set of GWT applications for a client. The clients customers will purchase a set of these applications (not necessarily all of them) and when deployed these applications will work together (imagine, for example, a 'Contacts' app, a 'Billing' app, 'Timerecording'

Re: Architectural ideas for a multi-app/module project

2010-04-06 Thread Jan Ehrhardt
What is about Gadgets with Apache Shindig http://shindig.apache.org/? You can also use GWT 2.0's code splitting feature. Compile one big app, but split the resulting JavaScript code into different modules. You can then load only the required ones into the browser. The only problem is, that you

Re: Architectural ideas for a multi-app/module project

2010-04-06 Thread Sripathi Krishnan
If it helps, tell the client that google recommends a single module, and that that's the way they implemented Orkut and Google Wave (that's what my 2min investigation tells me). Google Adwords uses multiple modules, but I think that's what led to the idea of code-splitting in GWT. If they still

Re: Architectural ideas for a multi-app/module project

2010-04-06 Thread lineman78
You can use the GWT Exporter project to create interfaces between them all and include the modules separately. I have been playing with a similar path, but unfortunately am unable to share the code. Essentially each sub-module populates an Element and the underlying software asks for that element