Let me start by saying it's been a really long time since I have done any front-end programming.
In the context of an RDF based restful API I've been involved in developing, it was always on my mind to create a GUI of sorts. I was thinking of going with JavaFX at some point, but never got around to doing it, mainly because of the bad experience I had in the past trying to develop with Swing. So I came across GWT the other day, and I was thinking of that approach. What troubles me (but also sounds exciting at the same time) is the fact that while you write Java the end result is a combination of HTML+Javascript. I guess a lot can be lost in this translation, but not having to rely on a JRE to run your app sounds awesome. 1. So does anyone know if it is possible to include Jena classes in a GWT app? I'm interested mainly in being able to use the usual interfaces like Model, RDFNode, Property, Resource etc (also Bag is a must). Simple things like reading a response from the server in Turtle syntax, getting a Model and getting resources and literals from it. And in the opposite direction posting a Model to my API. 2. If it is possible, has anyone done it? Any tutorials, pointers to get me started etc?
