i believe we have halped dan on irc. he was afraid that the wicket filter would block requests to the servlet used to communicate with gwt, when in fact this is not the case. wicket filter will not handle non-wicket related requests, thus they will be passed down to the servlet.
-igor On Dec 11, 2007 2:15 PM, Dan Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've scoured the internet to figure out how to integrate a GWT app inside a > Wicket App. I'm not getting very good results. I also checked the mailing > archives and didn't really find any technical advice on how to do this. > > > > First, I noticed a lot of the attitude towards GWT/Wicket is that you > usually want to choose one or the other. I disagree. In fact, I think > comparing GWT to Wicket is comparing apples and oranges. GWT is a Toolkit, > and Wicket is a Framework. They both do different things and they're both > very good at what they do. Therefore, it's worthwhile to have GWT > integration in wicket. > > > > The reason I personally want GWT support is because I'm making a game. It's > mostly a traditional webapp, but I also want to have an AJAX app that works > similar to Google Maps that allows users to visualize the world. Most of my > website will be Wicket, but from what I've seen of Wicket's AJAX support, > making this Map app would be much easier to do in GWT (no offense). > > > > That being said, I've also inferred from most of the Wicket + GWT > conversations that the Wicket developers are trying to add some huge > functionality to Wicket to allow you to place the a GWT app from your > WebPage classes. That may come in handy, but I'm not so sure that it's > necessary. I think the client side code that GWT requires could easily be > added by hardcoding it in the markup and that would be good enough for most > (myself included). The part that's tricky to me is this section: > http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/documentation/com.google.gwt.doc.Developer > Guide.RemoteProcedureCalls.html > > > > Specifically, if you scroll down a little to the image, how do you get the > right side to integrate with Wicket? As you can see, GWT uses a > RemoteServiceServlet if you want your GWT app to communicate with the > server. But the wicket philosophy seems like it tries to hide Servlets from > the user. So, in short, can anyone advise me on how to integrate a GWT app > with Wicket? > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
