It's certainly an intriguing idea (have a look at haxe.org if you find it interesting), but I don't really believe in this concept. It is very difficult to abstrahize the features (or should I say quirks) of different browsers. Some months ago, I had a look at several javascript libraries and it worked pretty flawless in every browser. When I checked again this week, one browser simply crashed. On 2 of 4 pages. It's sad, but it's just not stable enough for me. The GWT demo site worked fine, but custom components will be very tedious to develop and maintain.
To their defense, it seems they use this library for some of their major apps (including gmail?), so I think they invested a lot in making it work on as many browsers as possible. I think developing custom components will be pretty doable too, though I would miss the model part. I would hate the idea of having to talk to a service layer for anything I do.
Another issue is previewability. Not just for a designer, but for debugging purposes. If you click "view source" in your browser on a GWT page, you will see nothing but a HTML skeleton and an iframe.
Yeah. I see some advantages of using layout managers - basically the same promise as Swing has - but currently I would still prefer using HTML for layout. If I would like the GWT way of developing applications, I would have choosen Echo 2 a long time ago. GWT looks like a next gen Echo to me, though with a very big name behind it, and some cool innovations.
> Anybody has any idea to integrate it to wicket ? Integration into wicket doesn't seem feasible to me.
Not sure either. I don't believe in integration for marketing purposes only - let JSF do that ;) If good ideas come up, I wouldn't be against it of course. My fear is that the framework is too monolythic/ covers too much for integration. For that reason I never tried to integrate DWR, though I like that framework too. But I'm not totally sure, as I just looked at GWT at the surface. Eelco ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Wicket-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wicket-user
