Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-09-05 Thread Parvez Shah
We are also facing the same problem, Our application is a normal ERP application with lots of module, all the user do not use all the module, thus User A who uses only Module A has to download all the 15 module, now till now its not a big issue(its not even an issue as our output js is still very

Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-09-04 Thread cschoett
Hi Dave, GWT supports code generation at compile time. This allows you to instantiate classes by name (string) at compile time. Have a look at http://programmatica.blogspot.com/2007/10/classfornamefullyqualifiedclassnamenewi.html This blog entry has some gaps in source code. If you need a

Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-09-02 Thread David Tinker
Hi Dave The GWT Portlets framework (http://code.google.com/p/gwtportlets/) will do most of what you want. Developers will have to recompile your application to add new 'plugins' (Portlets) but all your other requirements are covered (and more). Cheers David On Aug 24, 12:23 pm, Dave

Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-08-24 Thread Dave
Cheers Nathan, That's a useful response. I didn't feel happy trying to send the UI classes across RPC, for the reasons you stated. I'm still looking at ways, where I will let developers 'produce' plugins that consist of a back and frontend. So the frontend widget/java script can easily be

Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-08-24 Thread kilaru
hi Dave, I have the same problem. i need to show content on the center position of the panel, when user clicks on tree node displayed in left side. I have seen the code of GWT-Ext showcase example and trying to implemented this. I have stored information in the database along with full

Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-08-22 Thread Yanick
On Aug 21, 6:56 am, Dave davej2...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to extend this by allowing developers to produce custom forms. i.e allow developers to add in there own CustomTreeItems, without having to recompile with my code. My inital plan was to have a directory in the classpath, so at

Re: Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-08-22 Thread Nathan Wells
Dave, the first thing need to know is that you're attempting to break some core rules. Widgets can only be created on the client-side. There are numerous reasons for this, but essentially it boils down to this: RPC calls should be about the model... data transfer, not UI component transfer.

Creating a plugin framework with GWT

2009-08-21 Thread Dave
Hi, I am trying to figure out how to create a plugin framework with GWT, let me explain I have created an application that has a menu on the left side and a form on the right site of the screen. The menu is a tree and the form is a vertical panel (think of the example mail application). I