On 6 juin, 22:14, Blessed Geek <blessedg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maven is great when used as a "more capable Ant", but sucks when used > for everything else that it has been so far been used for (like > attempting to create the Universe in 7 days). > > Maven as a build dependency and testing setup tool is not bad but the > way it has been misused for everything else so far sucks. Despite any > enthusiasm anyone else has for Maven as a all-in-one Swiss knife all- > purpose tool, my personal observation says that Maven is the wrong > tool to use to perform MVP/MVC building (as well as almost everything > else). > > Maven is a good tool to be used in-house within great companies like > IBM or Google who have some spare change to hire someone to maintain > the scripts to perform esoteric tasks like MVP/MVC code preparations > and concoctions but not for small companies or contractors. > > Therefore, it is a disappointment that GWT 2.1 decided to use Spring > which has a huge dependency on the abuse of use of Maven. > > GWT MVP/MVC should get back to the basics of XML XSD, like what > smartgwt is doing. I am hoping the GWT architects will provide an XML > XSD client side exposure to ui widgets and provide the specs to it so > that I could write my own mavenless data-ui binding (for example in > groovy).
You are confusing many things: 1. GWT 2.1 does not "use Spring", it "works with" Spring Roo, in that Roo generates Java code from server-side code that's suitable for your GWT client-side; but Roo is only a "helper": you can do the same by hand (this is an explicitly goal of the system) 2. What Roo generates has nothing to do with MVP or data-ui binding but with the RequestFactory which is just a way of performing CRUD operations on entity objects easily and efficiently (by that I mean "on the wire", not "in your code"); sure it generates a "scaffold" app but you're free to build from it or trash it and start from scratch 3. demos of the Roo/GWT integration never mentionned Maven, so I think this is either an implementation detail (which I doubt) or just a way of grabbing all the dependencies, and eventually run Roo as part of your build process (I don't know, I don't do Maven, and I haven't looked at Roo –neither do I intend to look at it anytime soon–) -- 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-tool...@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.
