[gwt-contrib] Random Thought: Compiler transformation Sync - Async

2009-11-01 Thread Bart Guijt
Dear GWT'ers, I'd like to propose a new GWT compiler transformation mechanism involving Async calls. I am working on a GWT API for accessing the HTML5 Database feature[1] in an OpenSource project[2]. The W3C Web Database API[3] is translated quite literally to a Java equivalent, involving

[gwt-contrib] Re: Random Thought: Compiler transformation Sync - Async

2009-11-01 Thread Andrés Testi
Check this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit-contributors/browse_thread/thread/4239559936d327e7/ On 1 nov, 11:01, Bart Guijt bgu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear GWT'ers, I'd like to propose a new GWT compiler transformation mechanism   involving Async calls. I am working

[gwt-contrib] Re: Random Thought: Compiler transformation Sync - Async

2009-11-01 Thread Bart Guijt
Exactly! I couldn't imagine being the first to propose something like this. Although I concur with Bob Vawter's comment, I still think there's a place for a compiler transformation like this. The proposal is not to meet incompetence levels of Java programmers, it is to enable existing

[gwt-contrib] Re: Random Thought: Compiler transformation Sync - Async

2009-11-01 Thread John Tamplin
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Bart Guijt bgu...@gmail.com wrote: Although I concur with Bob Vawter's comment, I still think there's a place for a compiler transformation like this. The proposal is not to meet incompetence levels of Java programmers, it is to enable existing Java libraries

[gwt-contrib] [google-web-toolkit] r6576 committed - Adding properties to specify test args based on the compile type (dev/...

2009-11-01 Thread codesite-noreply
Revision: 6576 Author: jlaba...@google.com Date: Sun Nov 1 08:30:34 2009 Log: Adding properties to specify test args based on the compile type (dev/web and remote/selenium). Also readding the ability to specify test args on a test target basis, which was removed during the gwt 2.0 merge.

[gwt-contrib] Re: Random Thought: Compiler transformation Sync - Async

2009-11-01 Thread Bart Guijt
On 1 nov 2009, at 1 nov, 17:24, John Tamplin wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 10:38 AM, Bart Guijt bgu...@gmail.com wrote: Although I concur with Bob Vawter's comment, I still think there's a place for a compiler transformation like this. The proposal is not to meet incompetence levels of Java

[gwt-contrib] [google-web-toolkit] r6577 committed - tr...@6576 was merged into this branch...

2009-11-01 Thread codesite-noreply
Revision: 6577 Author: jlaba...@google.com Date: Sun Nov 1 08:33:32 2009 Log: tr...@6576 was merged into this branch Allows test args to be specified per compile type. svn merge --ignore-ancestry -c 6576 https://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk . Patch by: jlabanca

[gwt-contrib] Re: Comment on UsingOOPHM in google-web-toolkit

2009-11-01 Thread codesite-noreply
Comment by gwtdevel...@gmail.com: @tamplinjohn: I managed to OOPHM to work in XUL by creating a new Linker See http://www.gdevelop.com/w/2009/10/30/using-oophm-to-develop-xul-applications/ For more information: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/UsingOOPHM

[gwt-contrib] Re: Random Thought: Compiler transformation Sync - Async

2009-11-01 Thread Matt Mastracci
I find that there are two sources of a lot of boilerplate code for the async stuff I work on: 1. State machines 2. Coordinating multiple asynchronous events (ie: timers, multiple inflight requests and user events) For #1, the code usually ends up as a set of enums for simple states