Re: Cell Widgets in GWT 3.0

On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 8:48:42 PM UTC+2, Gilberto wrote:

And what about you Thomas, are you going to port the features you implemented in GWT (like GWT Editors) to the 3.0?

To be fair, I haven't "implemented" any new feature in GWT, I helped and contributed bugfixes and enhancements, but hardly brought anything "new".

 

What are your plans?

I've started working on the PlaceHistoryMapper generator, as an "exercise". Also tried (and paused for now) implementing com.google.gwt.core.ext.typeinfo.* on top of javax.lang.model.*, to possibly make it possible to just "wrap" existing GWT generators to turn them into annotation processors. Given my limited free time to work on this, don't expect anything before weeks though.

Re. Editors, AutoBean and RequestFactory, I'll wait what Google (and others) have to propose (e.g. Singular).

Editors is quite complex, and somewhat dependant on widgets (anyone uses them without widgets out there?), so we first need to know more about the future of widgets.

AutoBeans might be obsoleted by JsInterop and native JSON support, on the client side, and standard JSON support (GSON, Jackson, etc.) on the server side.

RequestFactory is really complex (well, possibly less so on the client than the server side, maybe) and has many downsides (and many upsides); I'd like to first see what Google comes up with before even starting to think about it.

There might be ways to ease migration to new technologies/APIs rather than really port the existing ones, particularly if/when the alternative is better.

 

On Tuesday, June 23, 2015 at 6:01:50 PM UTC-3, Thomas Broyer wrote:

Videos about GWT 3.0 were by Google, not the Steering Committee.
That being said, it might be the same. My gut feeling is Sencha would help there, afaict GXT is all about widgets.

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