+1 for elemental 2.0

One project that I know of is

https://github.com/workingflows/gwt-jquery
that requires
https://github.com/workingflows/gwt-jscore
that re-implements Node for example
@JsType(isNative = true)
public class Node extends EventTarget {
public native void bind(String property, JsObject objects);
public native Element parentElement();
public native Node parentNode();
public native Node firstChild();
public native Node removeChild(Node child);
public native void appendChild(Object child);
}

Its author Cristian Rinaldi explicitly states: "This project is an
abstraction of the key elements of HTML and JS functionality. This can be
replaced in the future by Elemental 2.0." in README.md

jquery is a very basic js library. Lots and lots of js libraries depend on
it. I believe its adoption is a corner stone for jsinterop success
(although you can cut corners and create the wrappers only from the high
level js libraries your application actually needs).

On the negative side I am somewhat worry of the danger to be confusing for
plain GWT users (like me). GWT lready has 2 element types (one deprecated).
A third one unavoidably will increase the confusion.


    Vassilis

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:03 AM, Hristo Stoyanov <hr.stoya...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks Thomas,
> Yes, your are very close to what I am thinking! Note, that if such mapping
> cannot be "special-cased" with some jsinterop cleverness,  it could be
> refined by an additional @JsX annotation (or two).
>
> ... Other than that, releasing Elemental 2.0 is becoming an urgent matter,
> IMHO. I noticed at least 2 gwt frameworks that could not wait and started
> rolling out their custom jsinterop-enabled  basic DOM "stuff", which would
> otherwise belong to a proper GWT 2.8/Elemental 2 release. I also assume
> that Elemental 2 will include some of the  "jsinterop helper/utils"
> discussed in this forum.
>
>
> On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 3:58:53 PM UTC-7, Thomas Broyer wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Monday, June 6, 2016 at 9:15:43 PM UTC+2, Hristo Stoyanov wrote:
>>>
>>> Kirrill,
>>> I did not suggest to *convert*, but *map*. That means that if/when a
>>> JSInter-oped class is exported into the JS Engine (let's say V8) , the JS
>>> developer will see plain old js arrays, so s/he can work with them as they
>>> have been for ages. When Java/JsInterop developers work with the same
>>> structure, they can chose to view it as java.util.ArrayList, java array or
>>> some other java.util.Collection, thus using familiar Java APIs. It is the
>>> same structure in the JS Engine memory, but viewed differently. But no
>>> conversion involved.
>>>
>>
>> Some of those might work, but not all.
>> I.e. "seeing" a JS Array as a java.util.List might work, but not the
>> reverse; at least not with any java.util.List, only the one implementing
>> type(s) that directly map (@JsType(isNative=true)) to a JS Array. More
>> precisely, that means using that specific JsType on setting (and on
>> getting, though possibly JsInterop could special-case it; I think that's
>> what you're asking for); specifically, a setter taking any java.util.List
>> wouldn't work, as you could pass, say, a LinkedList, and GWT would be
>> unable to simply "map" it to a JS Array: we're compiling to JS here,
>> there's no boundary like with a plugin.
>> Currently, you could use elemental.util.ArrayOf, and I believe there will
>> be equivalents in due time (either GWT 2.8 proper, or Elemental 2). This is
>> more or less what Jens and Vassilis were talking about already.
>>
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