If you do not have special needs I think GWT-RPC is still fine especially 
with a jakarta version now available. But while it is easy to use it also 
has some annoying downsides you have to live with.

However there are quite some options:
- JsInterop based DTOs + JSON.parse/stringify. However you loose 
inheritance or have to write some helper code to workaround it as needed
- Use a json based library that solves the polymorphism problem for you
- Use gRPC for the web (grpc-web) which requires a proxy in front of your 
server gRPC endpoint to transparently convert binary to json
- Use websocket in either plain text mode or binary mode. If in binary mode 
you could use protobuf or similar to build the payload

Personally I always wanted to explore using nats.io, which is a message 
broker that also supports a request-reply pattern out of the box. That 
means a message channel/topic acts like a service. Nats has a 
nats-websocket library which connects browsers to the message broker and 
you can use protobuf or similar to define/generate your binary messages. 
Because you now have a message broker between clients and servers it should 
be relatively easy to scale and you get things like broadcast a message to 
all clients (push) with little effort. Nats also has a distributed KV store 
integrated if needed.

-- J.

Christian Hebert schrieb am Mittwoch, 10. Januar 2024 um 17:26:04 UTC+1:

> Hi guys, I've seen the changes in the new release regarding jakarta 
> servlets, which is great, it's a step toward jakarta but to this day,  GWT 
> is still based on the Servlet API 3.1. 
>
> Prior of seeing that change, I tried to move away from RPC calls and use 
> http requests instead. I found a nice library called RestyGWT (
> https://resty-gwt.github.io/) who can really simplify the process of 
> handling json data from/to a Rest API.
>
> So I converted my GWT remote servlets to a Rest API, made a few minor 
> changes in my client code and voilĂ , I was able to deploy it on a Jakarta 
> Application server since there is no GWT involved on the server side 
> anymore. 
>
> The last version of RestyGWT has been release in 2020 so I'm not sure how 
> active this project is but from what I've seen it's enough for me.
>
> So, I would like to get your thoughts on that.  Would you go on that road? 
> stick to RPC calls and wait for a version of GWT based on Jakarta? build 
> your "own" GWT with the changes introduced in the vew version?
>

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