Dear Harmeet, Your GWT approach sounds promising. Could you share more details with us on how you did it and perhaps supply some code?
Thanks, -Jeroen On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Bilgin Ibryam <bibr...@iguanait.com> wrote: > Hi Harmeet, > > Can you show any demo or POC code for gwt integrated with ofbiz? > Do you need to compile and deploy javascipt files in ofbiz after every > change in the screens? > Thanks in advance > > Bilgin > > On Dec 1, 2008, at 4:50 AM, Harmeet Bedi wrote: > >> There are a few libraries that are rich with widgets in GWT that can be >> applied. We started with gxt : http://extjs.com/products/gxt/. Some other >> good candidates are smartgwt ( http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/ ) and >> default GWT toolkit and associated google projects have some decent widgets >> too. (GWT is under apache license so compatible). >> >> It would be very nice if Ofbiz team can consider more GWT. We could >> provide code.. developer help etc. to promote this. >> We could start with creating a demo that you can see and see if you want >> to evaluate this direction more. I feel GWT + HTML is a very good choice for >> people writing java servers. >> >> GWT theoretically is just a mechanism where you write java code and that >> is generated into javascript and dom manipulation, but it is much more. >> - Strong typing in java, debugger support makes it far more productive and >> reliable to create rich applications. >> - Due to better approach applied with GWT to rich javascript/ajax/dhtml >> applications.. one can now write much more complex user interfaces. i.e. >> take a leap in rich web application capabilities. i.e. write an entire >> webpos in gwt vs. very hard and buggy to write one entirely in javascript. >> - Can retain HTML as the frame of application and gwt widgets can contain >> html. GWT and ftl templates can play together. So low barrier of entry, >> simple nature of web 1.0 is retained. >> >> Harmeet > >
