[gwt-contrib] Comment on OverlayTypes in google-web-toolkit

2009-06-12 Thread codesite-noreply
Comment by bobbysoares: Scottb, I was suggesting for example having new MyObject(...) be replaced with MyObject.newInstance(...) automatically (where newInstance would be a method supplied by the developer which returns an instance of the class, possibly natively, after calling the JS

[gwt-contrib] Comment on OverlayTypes in google-web-toolkit

2009-06-12 Thread codesite-noreply
Comment by cromwellian: It would be interesting to consider Constructor() as being rewritten to a static method with an implicit call to createObject() and all references to this rewritten to this$static. e.g. public Foo(int x, String y) { this.x = x; this.y = y; } rewritten to

[gwt-contrib] Comment on OverlayTypes in google-web-toolkit

2009-04-20 Thread codesite-noreply
Comment by rj...@google.com: JSOs can now implement interfaces. Rather than wishing for a constructor on your JSO, you can implement to an interface and have your JRE code provide an alternative, non-JSO implementation. For more information:

[gwt-contrib] Comment on OverlayTypes in google-web-toolkit

2009-04-18 Thread codesite-noreply
Comment by bobbysoares: I see use for public constructors in Overlay-Types when wrapping around JS libraries. I say this because when it's necessary to enable the overlayed types to be constructed from Java, where the choice is between the use of a plain Java wrapper class or an

[gwt-contrib] Comment on OverlayTypes in google-web-toolkit

2009-02-05 Thread codesite-noreply
Comment by sco...@google.com: Regarding the hosted mode implementation: we should actually mangle the method name into com_google_Person$someMethod. Adding the dollar-sign is the convention for synthetics. For more information: