Hi Roger,

Then the only option left is xml, of course if we are not going GWT-RPC way.

So what do you think will be better JSON or XML ?

I have created a GWT application, the communication with server part is
pending, the server side is java but its an already existing application, so
I need to hook something in between the service side application & GWT to
communicate, so I am looking out if it should be json or xml.


- Abdullah

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Roger Studner <[email protected]> wrote:

> And to add one thing.
>
> Using JSON w/ GWT is well.. "awful".
>
> The main reason for this, is that you get JSON back to the client, and
> either use Overlay Types (can't use instanceof with there, and about 500
> other issues).. or you hve to take a "simple" OverlayType and then
> re-instantiate all of your objects (i.e. you do eval() once on the JSON,
> then for-loop etc to re-instantiate objects from that JSONObject).
>
> And then, the joy doesn't stop.  When you want to say, post JSON back to
> the server, you have to redo this process, converting all the "java objects"
> (which are of course actually javascript) into JSON.
>
> All in all, using JSON w/ GWT is a very (very) painful experience.
>
> THe humor of course, is that you have to convert objects "to and from Java"
> so that you can then use all the "java" API's etc that GWT (just converts
> into Javascript).
>
> Heh
>
> Roger
>
> On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:30 AM, Jan Ehrhardt wrote:
>
> The problem is the GWT RPC's serialization, which can't work with objects
> created by hibernate. You can use the DTO Grails plugin (
> http://www.grails.org/plugin/dto) or you can use JSON / REST for
> communication.
>
> In the case of a Grails app, which comes with great support for REST /
> JSON, I would prefer the second way.
>
> Regards
> Jan Ehrhardt
>
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:37 AM, Don Ruby, R&amp;D <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> GWT is the obvious choice for UI. But if you want to use Grails/Groovy
>> for server side, you have to either code messy DTOs or client side
>> POJOs.  It would be nice if GWT would support using the Grails/Groovy
>> domain objects directly on the client.  Any chance of that happening?
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