On Feb 4, 2009, at 3:49 PM, Bruno Busco wrote:
...and GWT is Apache licensed !
That does make is easier to include... but isn't really a reason to
use it... ;)
2009/2/4 Bruno Busco <bruno.bu...@gmail.com>
Well...
...to have something similar to this in the OFBiz UI :
http://opensourcestrategies.com/images/opentaps_gwt_demo.htm
I don't know about others, but so far if OSS decides to do something
in opentaps I take it as a good reason to NOT do the same in OFBiz. :)
Quite a few of the things in that little recording are already
supported in the form and screen widgets (with demos in the Example
app), and other things could certainly be done.
The question is... how does GWT compare to other options? You can
probably find dozens of emails on this topic in the archives if you're
interested (ie comparing them to other JavaScript/AJAX libraries like
prototype and dojo and such).
AFAIK no one has done an adequate comparison of these technologies for
what we want to do in OFBiz (or what users of OFBiz want to do, more
to the point), but IMO we have more flexibility with our current
tools, and not requiring the translation it makes it easier to debug
and do funky things if needed... and as for overall development
efficiency... I dunno, but my guess is the current approach is better
so unless we find good reasons to move to GWT or something pushes it
and does neat things with it that make it into the project, we
probably won't use it much.
-David
2009/2/4 David E Jones <david.jo...@hotwaxmedia.com>
What for?
-David
On Feb 4, 2009, at 2:52 PM, Bruno Busco wrote:
It seems opentaps is going to use GWT.
Shouldn't we consider using it?
-Bruno
2009/2/2 Jeroen van der Wal <jvander...@stromboli.it>
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
