Hey Johan, thanks for the link, I will check it out. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Johan Rydberg <johan.rydb...@edgeware.tv>wrote:
> Have you guys checked the http://github.com/chirino/resty-gwt project? It > has a generator > that does pretty much all the "awful" things Roger talks about. > > > On 1/28/10 9:14 AM, Abdullah Shaikh wrote: > >> 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 <rstud...@gmail.com<mailto: >> rstud...@gmail.com>> 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&D >>> <donald.r...@mindspring.com <mailto:donald.r...@mindspring.com>> >>> >>> 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. 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