Great Question, Im doing a similar thing, but Im using the App Engine, but at present I cant get the datastore access to work, Ive been stuck on that for 3 days now, and I only wanted to do that so that I could move on to testing gears out....however it looks like that might be a waste of time anyway! Thanks for the heads up and saving me some time... Still want to get the datastore thing working though, thats reallly frustrating me!
On Aug 3, 4:18 pm, Dominic Holt <domh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings all, > > I am currently building a GWT application that functions entirely > offline (as in, never connects to the internet to update, sync, what > have you). In a normal web application, you can typically run your > application offline just as well as long as you use an application > server that you have deployed your app in and assuming you have local > network access to the application server. > > The problem inherent with GWT is that you must use GWT-RPC in order to > call the server from the client side in order to do interesting > things. Normally this would not be a problem, it would just be a > server call and would make use of the local application server, but > GWT insists on having a connection to the internet to make an RPC call > (and I'm having a hard time understanding why this is a good idea). > > At any rate, Google's answer to this problem seems to be to use Gears > to stick everything in a database. I've accomplished reasonable > functionality by creating separate java projects that do interesting > things, which access the Gears SQLite database used by my GWT project. > Essentially the GWT project has to stick things into the database, the > other projects have to read these inputs out of the database, perform > magic with them, and then put them back in the database so that the > GWT project can read them again. Unfortunately, this method is > becoming increasingly cumbersome, especially with the limitations of > SQLite and how you can only update so often without the database > locking. Is there a way to "fake" an internet connection for GWT so > that GWT-RPC calls will work offline? Is there a better method? > > Thanks very much for your time, > > Dominic Holt --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
