Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Re: GWT Runtime Plugins - Is it on the Roadmap?

I just read this:
"The goal for 2.7 is to have incremental compilation (that will tremendously speed up Super Dev Mode) and a beta of JsInterop (and remove support for IE6/7, and maybe deprecate support for IE8)."

Would it be possible for the technology that allows SuperDevMode to work incrementally for that to work across maven modules. So if I have have one maven module compiled, and others depend on it, it won't need to recompile that dependency? Going one step further, could it allow runtime plugins too?

Mark
On Wednesday, April 2, 2014 1:14:59 AM UTC+1, Thanos wrote:
I was wondering if GWT Runtime Plugins are on the roadmap yet?

We have GWT compile time plugins working quite nicely, each plugin is a maven module. After the number of plugins gets large, this really starts to bog down the compiler. So it would be great if plugins where pre-compiled and "linked" at runtime in the browser. 

I know this sacrifices .js size, as it can't prune as aggressively. But for our type of application, an extensible workbench, it would really help; and would probably be an acceptable tradeoff. Both to improve development speed, but also as we have a requirement to allow 3rd party plugins to be added at runtime.

For those interested in our extensible Workbench work, you can see a number of videos here:

I know there are hacks, such as loading lots of GWT applications on a single page, and bridging them. But i'd like to avoid any painful hacks. I was hoping that the new closure compiler, with it's support of symbol tables, might make this possible?

Our main choice for choosing GWT is re-factorable development in an IDE, and less so about absolute minimum .js size (although of course we don't want too much bloat).

Mark


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