Hi Vegegoku,

Thanks for clearing that up.

At some point I will definitely try the domino-rest/jackson.

For now I dread the time I will eventually be forced to port my current
setup.


On Thu, Jan 11, 2024 at 5:13 PM Vegegoku <aka...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The annotation on the POJO is not required at all, Domino-rest will auto
> generate the json-mapping classes if the jax-rs/jakarata resource
> consumes/produces a json even if the annotation is missing, so you can keep
> the POJO clean or only have Jackson compatible annotations. ;-)
>
> On Thursday, January 11, 2024 at 11:35:05 AM UTC+3 Vassilis Virvilis wrote:
>
>> First of all thanks for doing this work. It is hugely appreciated and
>> required in order to avoid GWT and GWT projects look like zombies in a dead
>> landscape.
>>
>> I am using RestyGWT and yes I also believe it uses Generators
>> (GWT.create() ?). I am facing a problem there since RestyGWT is deadish
>> itself.
>>
>> One of the reasons I abandoned GWT-RPC was Jsinterop. With Jsinterop you
>> can include and link to js libraries in the client. Some of them require
>> data from the backend e.g. datatables.net, d3 etc. GWT-RPC is not
>> compatible with them so I would need to use RequestFactory, which I never
>> liked or another framework. So why have two of them? Use one. Go to JSON.
>> RestyGWT was the only viable choice at the time.
>>
>> With Resty-GWT I can have my POjOs *without annotations*, and I can
>> share them between backend, frontend and other clients (non web). RestyGWT
>> has 2 backends:
>> - an older private jackson like (forked) implementation. That's the one I
>> use.
>> - a newer gwt-jackson based one. This one never worked for me.
>>
>> Furthermore I have invested in RestGWT and I have some custom patches so
>> RestyGWT can transmit my generics.
>>
>> At this point domino-jackson and domino-rest looks like the way forward
>> but from a quick look require annotations in the POJO and this is something
>> that I would like to avoid.
>>
>> Just my 2 bits. Sorry if incoherent...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 9:45 PM Michael Conrad <mic...@newsrx.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You should investigate the DominoKit project. They have a much more
>>> up-to-date JSON/Jackson-ish implementation.
>>>
>>> Ref: https://github.com/DominoKit/domino-rest
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/10/24 11:26, Christian Hebert wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi guys, I've seen the changes in the new release regarding jakarta
>>> servlets, which is great, it's a step toward jakarta but to this day,  GWT
>>> is still based on the Servlet API 3.1.
>>>
>>> Prior of seeing that change, I tried to move away from RPC calls and use
>>> http requests instead. I found a nice library called RestyGWT (
>>> https://resty-gwt.github.io/) who can really simplify the process of
>>> handling json data from/to a Rest API.
>>>
>>> So I converted my GWT remote servlets to a Rest API, made a few minor
>>> changes in my client code and voilà, I was able to deploy it on a Jakarta
>>> Application server since there is no GWT involved on the server side
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>> The last version of RestyGWT has been release in 2020 so I'm not sure
>>> how active this project is but from what I've seen it's enough for me.
>>>
>>> So, I would like to get your thoughts on that.  Would you go on that
>>> road? stick to RPC calls and wait for a version of GWT based on Jakarta?
>>> build your "own" GWT with the changes introduced in the vew version?
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