On Monday, 16 November 2015 12:51:35 UTC, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > > On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 1:28:16 PM UTC+1, stuckagain wrote: >> >> Thanks for all the feedback. But it does not put my mind at rest right >> now. >> >> It would have been much better if GWT 2.8 would have provided at >> least the basis for the future of GUI development - because that was one of >> its main selling points for me. >> >> I understand why element/widget/uibinder are going away, but right now >> there is no low-level alternative that would allow a less painful migration >> later on. >> >> I am not expecting a 100% backward compatibility with 3.0, but at least >> some certainty that the code rewrites will be limited or easy, if we >> restrain from using certain technologies. The only certainty we have right >> now is that GWT 3.0 will compile Java into JavaScript, and all the rest >> will change or will just disappear assuming that there will be 3rd party >> extensions. >> >> If GWT does not offer a basis for widget and UI development then there >> will be multiple incompatible GUI libraries or frameworks that will make it >> difficult to mix. >> > > Web Components to the rescue? > As I just wrote above, Web Components can be written in Java with > JsInterop, and can be consumed quite easily with GWT too (whether the > component was written with GWT or not). > I know that answer won't satisfies you as you have to deal with ancient > IEs, but Google has no such need, and has, over the past year(s?), > expressed its will to simply stop supporting them in GWT altogether (Vaadin > and Sencha were those asking for keeping support in); so they won't invest > in such backwards-compatibility (I'm talking about browser here). > > Fully agree with web components, but (as I've said above) I can't see a compelling reason to write them in Java (polymer makes JS web component creation so easy) and once you've started down this route it becomes very easy to justify not needing Java/GWT for the rest of the application.
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