Requestfactory in its current form is perfect if your just manipulating
entities(finderrs, insert, delete, modify) but not dealing with lots of
business logic on the server side.   I believe in GWT 2.1.1 it will probably
be a pretty good replacement as it will add features like caching and being
able to hook to any service objects instead of just entities.

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Jeff Larsen <larse...@gmail.com> wrote:

> David,
>
> Can you explain some of the benifits/drawbacks of using the
> RequestFactory vs gwt-dispatch. I haven't taken the time to really
> investigate the new RequestFactory, but currently I've got gwt-
> dispatch wired into my app, I'm just curious if the RequestFactory
> paradigm will be better for my current usecase.
>
> -Jeff
>
> On Oct 8, 12:31 am, Rud <rudmerr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay, got it to work but it feels ugly.
> >
> > In my 'east' I put a class SimpleDisplayUi which is a UiBinder class.
> > Its ui.xml just has a SimplePanel.
> >
> > The trick was in SimpleDisplayUi.showActivityWidget(IsWidget widget)
> > to do
> >
> >                     simplePanel.setWidget(widget.asWidget());
> >
> > It seems there are two many layers from DockLayoutPanel  to 'east' to
> > SimpleDisplayUi to SimplePanel and finally to the actual panel(s) that
> > can be changed.
> >
> > There are a Activity classes that seem superfluous like SimpleActivity
> > just to create SimpleDisplayUi. It doesn't get created or called.
> >
> > I'll look at cleaning this up but getting SimpleDisplayUi working was
> > painful so I'm not sure there is much leeway. Just look at its
> > declaration:
> >
> >     public class SimpleDisplayUi extends Composite implements
> > SimpleActivity.SimpleDisplayUi, Display { }
> >
> > Rudhttp://mysticlakesoftware.com
>
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