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Raj BJ Freeman wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 it is a combination applet/application that can be detached from a webpage and used Standalone. there is one module in it that communicates with ofbiz as you say client/server, but not in the traditional way. That is the one the is mostly updated. What it achieves is very loose coupling to ofbiz. It only deals with data presented from ofbiz webpages and Sending Data back as if a user did something on the ofbiz webpage. so I have a very rich UI for the user. Similar to the Eclipse UI. Bruno Busco sent the following on 2/5/2009 11:57 AM:BJ, I am interested in better understand how the architecture you describe works. Is this a client-server architecture? I mean a java swing application running on the client that make requestes to the OFBiz server? Thank you, -Bruno 2009/2/5 BJ Freeman <bjf...@free-man.net>: I agree with David. But if someone want to go to the trouble of doing the code I don't see why it can't be put in the jira for someone to use if they want to. Just as a heads up I use the current screens in my remote UI(java swing). my app reads the screens, generates the equivalent in the UI i have, and sends the changes as if a user does it. This allows ofbiz to keep it dynamics, and allow my users to have a intuitive UI. As ofbiz screens change at the browser level, then I have one module in my code that gets updated. as far as "Remote" UI's I think they should be designed at arms length to ofbiz. that is what SOap is suppose to do. so maybe getting Soap more robust would be one way. David E Jones sent the following on 2/4/2009 4:33 PM: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.htmI 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. -David2009/2/4 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 canbe applied. We started with gxt : http://extjs.com/products/gxt/. Someother good candidates are smartgwt ( http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/ )and default GWT toolkit and associated google projects have some decentwidgets 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 choicefor 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 productiveand 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 injavascript. - 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. 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