Sunday, May 30, 2010

Re: Status of Joda/Goda time, future of Date handling

I am using gwt-time. I haven't had any issues as yet. However, the
biggest
problem is that it adds 250 - 300 kb to the project js download. I
was careful to avoid the dependency for the initial download fragment.

On May 30, 12:36 pm, Chris Lercher <cl_for_mail...@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think, many people (including myself) are a little bit unhappy with
> the current situation of date and time handling
>
> a) due to the use of deprecated methods of java.util.Date and
> b) due to the general weaknesses of the java Date API
>
> This topic crops up repeatedly on different forums, as well as in this
> GWT issue report:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=603
>
> There are several projects that have attempted to port Joda time to
> GWT:
>
> http://code.google.com/p/goda-time/http://code.google.com/p/gwittir/http://github.com/mping/gwt-joda-timehttp://code.google.com/p/gwt-time/
>
> But all of them seem to be in alpha/beta status (or have licensing
> problems in the case of goda), and as far as I can see, they're not
> really active anymore (I hope, I'm wrong for at least one of the
> projects?)
>
> Are you using any of these projects, can you recommend one? Does the
> GWT team have plans to integrate a Joda-like API?
>
> Thanks
> Chris

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