I don't mean to throw a wet blanket on the GWT discussion, but my (limited) impression of GWT was that it was trying to abstract away the web, rather than embrace it. Rather than dealing with loosely coupled services, resources, and representations, it wraps everything into a nice tidy Java API that would be familiar to Swing and RPC service developers. I certainly think there's a good place for frameworks like these (just look at the popularity of GWT), but trying to adapt it to a REST world sounds like you're barking up the wrong tree. I'd love to hear other points of view, though.
Justin On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does someone have a single snippet of code that shows how the Restlet-GWT > API would work with the GWT tutorial w/RPC in StockWatcher? Pseudo code > would be fine. > http://code.google.com/docreader/#p=google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5&s=google-web-toolkit-doc-1-5&t=GettingStartedRPC > That is, what would the -Async and Service interface look like, and what > part, if any, do annotations like @RemoteServiceRelativePath("stockPrices") > play when using Restlet-GWT? > Thanks. > > On Sep 8, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Rob Heittman wrote: > > Restlet's GWT (Server) Extension, being just a wrapper around ServerServlet > that can also pass calls to the GWT Hosted Mode adapter, is one small class > file that has been in 1.1 milestone builds for almost a year now. My > company uses it in a number of large production and in-development > applications. These do not use Restlet-GWT API yet (though we are starting > to port), but use GWT's built in facilities or JSNI to talk to a > Restlet-powered server. > > The Restlet-GWT API (the port of the core Restlet API to work under GWT 1.5) > was a much larger undertaking afflicted by a lot of design complexity, the > moving target of GWT 1.5, and requiring the wisdom and time of Jerome, the > Restlet project founder, to accomplish. > - Rob > > On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Thank you for the kind and speedy response, Rob. >> I intend to spend the week, and then some, on this subject, and would be >> happy to receive any guidance or code you can muster. In return, I can post >> my newcomer questions and results. >> I'm curious: how is it that the hosted mode Restlet GWT Extension is >> heavily exercised, but the Restlet-GWT API is not? And what is the >> difference again? >> Mark >> On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:10 PM, Rob Heittman wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, I've been working on a longish example ("Chesstlet") that pulls >> together a number of Restlet and GWT techniques, but this won't be ready >> until November, due to some commitments I have in early October that >> complicate my availability. In the meantime, maybe the best thing to do >> would be to pull together a small illustration based on the test case >> already in the Restlet source -- just beefing it up to do some useful things >> beyond hello, world. I will try to get that together (or ask someone else >> at the office to do so) in the next day or two. >> >> The Restlet-GWT API is still largely unexercised (as opposed to the >> Restlet GWT Extension, which is just the hosted mode wrapper for >> ServerServlet, which is very heavily exercised) so we are discovering all >> sorts of new issues as we try it out. So you should probably be working >> from a Restlet snapshot to pick up all the latest commits. I think the >> latest important thing was an infinite recursion that Thierry removed. Now >> that GWT 1.5 is final and we don't have to chase a moving target any more, >> it will be easier to stabilize this. >> - Rob >> On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:48 PM, Mark Petrovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Good day. I'm new here, but not new to Java and its supporting >>> technologies. >>> >>> I'm embarking on teaching myself GWT using Restlets, neither of which I >>> have programmed before, although I have read the documentation for each. I >>> know that at the time the Restlet-GWT code was released, a whopping 6 weeks >>> ago :-), there were no examples illustrating its use. Perhaps there are >>> snippets of examples the community can share now, some weeks after the >>> release. If you have such examples, I would be quite grateful to study >>> them, as would be, I'm sure, other newcomers to these subjects. I am >>> particularly interested in running the server side using the Restlet NET >>> connector. >>> >>> All the pieces are in front of me; at this point a few well placed >>> examples would help bring it all together. >>> >>> Thank you. >> >> > > >
