Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-29 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
> We weren't really burned by using what we did but we did learn a > lesson and I was hoping just to get feedback on others experiences. > > It seems that this wasn't the proper place. Thank you for sharing your experience. I think this is definitely the right place to talk about it. -- Arthur K

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-29 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
Thanks for the support everyone :) > Showing some search results? Create a search > result POJO and a searchResultWidget to match. It really doesn't get > any easier. Because GWT so kindly works with the MVC paradigm, it's > often very convenient the code the VIEW to match your MODEL (or vice > v

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-23 Thread lukehashj
Arthur, Way to keep your cool against that flamer! Good, clear-headed advice. All, On our project we've integrated GWT with spring really nicely - and I'd recommend this to anybody planning on creating a large project. Makes unit testing a reality, and configuration a breeze. We've thus far avoi

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-22 Thread IO
Arthur, Arthur, I actually find your input very helpful. I saw that you’ve been criticized for posting it so… I wanted to thank you. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-22 Thread cloudycity
When I asked the question originally I didn't mean to cause so much contention. We started using gwt 8 months ago when the basic gwt wasn't as complete and had only 8 months to get a working app up. There were 3 developers and at the time it was difficult to understand the pros and cons of the va

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-22 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
> All I can suggest you is : take a week or a few days, take the latest > version of the library and see if the lib can help you (for me, it > does, it just saves me a lot of time). I agree completely. The best thing someone can do is to try it themselves. Remember to make a relatively complex in

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-21 Thread Miles T.
On 19 déc, 20:51, Pascal wrote: > I think his advice are > meant to be friendly advice and I do think a lot of people agree with > them. I don't. I use Ext GWT (aka gxt, previously MyGWT), which is a full GWT library (no JSNI, no wrapping JS library), since April (2008) for an internal applicat

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Jason Essington
Hi Sunit The GWT team tries very hard to not introduce breaking changes to the API, but in some cases it is necessary for progress. Sometimes changes that are made (That aren't breaking changes to the core GWT api) unintentionally effect third party libraries, particularly ones that are wra

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Pascal
Rob, I think numerous people have been bitten by the gwt-ext/ext-gwt/name other third party library here. The first two I mentionned especially. I am one of them. I think a lot of people think exactly the same way. Personally, I think it's great thing that somebody takes time to warn people agains

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Alejandro D. Garin
Hi, I'm using gwt-mosaic in my project. It's really usefull for my development. I like the layout managers, Widgets like WindowPanel (excelent - it's a DialogBox with resizing and header manager). I choose the library because it's pure gwt code (I agree in this point with Arthur) Ale On Fri, Dec

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Sunit Katkar
I have just started working on a prototype of our application using GWT. Mike Shaffer, here on the list, has been very kind to help with some questions I had about migrating a Struts/JSP UI to a GWT UI. For now I am sticking with the standard GWT widgets. Maybe this is the wrong thread to ask, but

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Rob Smith
Pointing users to the appropriate mailing list is absolutely the right thing to do. Sumit already does a good job with this. It's when you add your own unsolicited and biased spin when pointing to the forum that I take issue with. Like library X has nothing to do with GWT and I think they are real

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
Rob, I forgot to mention, are you going to attack GWT developers like Sumit Chandel that point GWT-ext and ExtGWT questions to those project's respective mailing lists? -- Arthur Kalmenson On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Arthur Kalmenson wrote: > Rob, > >> There you go again sounding like

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
Rob, > There you go again sounding like a broken record. You really are quite > thick headed aren't you? Perhaps instead of attacking _me_, you can point out where I'm wrong? However, AFAIK they're still JSNI bindings and still don't work well with regular GWT widgets or use the GWT event model.

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Miles T.
Hi Dave, gwt-ext and SmartGWT are wrappers of javascript libraries (respectively ExtJS and SmartClient) Ext GWT (aka gxt) and gwt-mosaic are pure GWT libraries (the former is hosted by ExtJS guys and trying to get the same features as ExtJS, that's why there is "Ext" in the name). @Riyaz : I for

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread David Hoffer
Thanks I will check out gwt-mosaic again. I tried it recently and it couldn't be used because it was compiled with JRE 1.6, I tried recompiling with 1.5 but ran into issues. Hopefully this will be updated soon. -Dave On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 7:32 AM, Arthur Kalmenson wrote: > > Hi Dave, > >>

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Rob Smith
There you go again sounding like a broken record. You really are quite thick headed aren't you? If you take pleasure in constantly dissing other libraries, I'll do the same and reply to your every post saying that you are full of it. Deal? You might make yourself more useful if you try to answer

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
Hi Dave, > I see you have put SmartGWT in the JS wrapper camp, is this the case? > I haven't heard anything about this library before and had just > stumbled across it. SmartGWT is in fact a JS wrapper of the SmartCient JS library (http://www.smartclient.com/) > Do you have a web site (or somet

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread David Hoffer
Arthur, I see you have put SmartGWT in the JS wrapper camp, is this the case? I haven't heard anything about this library before and had just stumbled across it. Do you have a web site (or something) where we can find out which GWT libraries are pure GWT and okay to use? IMHO, although I know y

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
> So you've assumed responsibility for being the GWT saviour by > educating these developers and saving their project? I'm not really assuming any responsibility, I'm just mentioning that there are draw backs to using these libraries. > What makes you so qualified? I've had to abandon and rewr

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-19 Thread Miles T.
Hi Riyaz, Unfortunately, you cannot find all these features in one framework. As Arthur said, there are some things in gwt-incubator. Some others are in GWT-WL, GWT-SL, Ext GWT, gwt-ext, SmartGWT, etc... Examples : gwt-incubator : Logging GWT-SL : Spring integration Ext GWT (this is a lib I use

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-18 Thread Rob Smith
Arthur, So you've assumed responsibility for being the GWT saviour by educating these developers and saving their project? What makes you so qualified? You've expressed your opinion (more than once) so why not leave it at that. How would it appear if someone posted in response to your every post

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-18 Thread Dave Ford
Arthur, I appreciate the info. On Dec 18, 5:54 am, "Arthur Kalmenson" wrote: > Hi Rob, > > Judging from cloudcity's response, not everyone is aware of the draw > backs of these libraries (or, as you put it, my position on them). > Ignoring an issue is not going to make it go away. I'm letting pe

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-18 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
Hi Rob, Judging from cloudcity's response, not everyone is aware of the draw backs of these libraries (or, as you put it, my position on them). Ignoring an issue is not going to make it go away. I'm letting people know what the draw backs of using these libraries are, because a lot of people are

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-18 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
> Not on topic for this thread but Curious about why you would not use > ExtGWT or SmartGWT. We started using gwt-ext 8 months ago and are > wanting to phase it out - buggy and poor performance are the primary > reasons. That's exactly why. I stay within vanilla GWT and some of the better incuba

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-17 Thread Rob Smith
Did anyone ask you opinion on use of third part libs in this thread. We know what your position is on using 3rd party libs and you have made it clear "numerous" times. Repeating the same thing again and again is just adding noise to this group. Gmail has a wonderful filter option and you can set y

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-17 Thread cloudycity
Not on topic for this thread but Curious about why you would not use ExtGWT or SmartGWT. We started using gwt-ext 8 months ago and are wanting to phase it out - buggy and poor performance are the primary reasons. On Dec 17, 12:34 pm, "Arthur Kalmenson" wrote: > I'm hoping that a lot of those th

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-17 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
I'm hoping that a lot of those things will be added to the incubator in the near future. I've mentioned the request for simpler security similar to Spring Security's @Secured("ROLE_USER") annotations. Data binding and validation frameworks are on their way as well, in the near future. I would sta

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-17 Thread mikedshaf...@gmail.com
This does bring up a good point and something that is sourly missing. We have cobbled together some very generic type stuff patterned (albeit very low in quality) what we used extensively in Eclipse Rich Client. Maybe the ExtGWT guys or SmartGWT will come up with something. Or if the Eclipse Web

Re: GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-17 Thread Arthur Kalmenson
There are some things in the incubator for status bars and logging. The rest you would have to do yourself. -- Arthur Kalmenson On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:17 AM, Riyaz Mansoor wrote: > > > I'm not looking for rich widget sets (Ext, Smart, etc) but rather is > there a GWT framework that provide

GWT RIA s ?

2008-12-16 Thread Riyaz Mansoor
I'm not looking for rich widget sets (Ext, Smart, etc) but rather is there a GWT framework that provides basics for a RIA. One that handles the grunt work such as providing; status bar, xml or other configurable menu, error logging report, authentication, security etc This maybe reaching for the