Re: On extension strategies for GWT applications

2013-10-25 Thread Jens
We really need something like this too. We've developed a workbench UI, that has plugins - all currently compile time. Would be nice to be able to have those as runtime plugins, even if they are self contained GWT apps. As you pointed out you can not just simply pass those objects between

Re: On extension strategies for GWT applications

2013-10-25 Thread Mark Proctor
It seems like this is a common request. I wonder if there is anything the GWT team can put into the roadmap, that would allow for the compilation of a core application. Then the later compilation, aka “linking”, of other gwt code - where the user annotates things not to be pruned, so they can

Re: On extension strategies for GWT applications

2013-10-24 Thread Thanos
We really need something like this too. We've developed a workbench UI, that has plugins - all currently compile time. Would be nice to be able to have those as runtime plugins, even if they are self contained GWT apps. As you pointed out you can not just simply pass those objects between the

Re: On extension strategies for GWT applications

2013-10-18 Thread David
Davide, GWT is not really made to be deployed as multiple GWT compilation units. This is done for the sake of performance. I had similar requirements as you I needed to be able to co-host multiple GWT applications on one page (a portal system) but they are compiled separately and developed by

On extension strategies for GWT applications

2013-10-17 Thread Davide Cavestro
I have to support the deployment of additional modules in order to dynamically extend my employer's GWT application, adding new features or customizing the existing ones. I mean *something like a plugin system which dynamically loads and executes new code deployed at any point of time*. The