I am not too sure of the final goal but I have two sample projects that do something similar using places with parent class (sub-class defines main content activity, and parent class defines a different area that does not update every time)
Both activity mappers are wrapped in a cacheActivityMapper https://github.com/ashtonthomas/gwt-seminar https://github.com/ashtonthomas/beans Not sure if this will help you or not On Dec 1, 7:47 pm, metalhammer29a <metalhammer...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>Depending on how your app is structured you can implement a Place > >>hierarchy. > >>AppPlace or just Place > >>Type1Place extends AppPlace (or Place) > >>Type2Place extends AppPlace (or Place) > >>Type3Place extends AppPlace (or Place) > >>HomePlace extends Type1Place > >>ContactUsPlace extends Type2Place etc.... > > I believe it should be the other way around. > > instead of organizing by "Place" types, we have to organize by > "Activity" types. > > "one place" can be mapped to "many" different Activities. > (upon navigating to "a" new place, you can start activities in > different regions: eg. west and center ) > > therefore we would have: > > abstract class ApplicationActivities implements ActivityMapper > > class ApplicationWestRegionActivities extends ApplicationActivities > class ApplicationCenterRegionActivities extends ApplicationActivities > // and the same for North and East Regions > > and in these xxxxRegionActivities we override getActivity() method to > return the Activity that matches the currently passed in place, or > null to hide the region. > > however, in most cases we require two regions to be visible, and as > user interacts with one region, the other get updated (as a result of > navigation). > > using the approach I described, both regions fetch the data, while in > fact only one should do it. > > as a general question, > is it better to organize/split the application by Places, or by > Activities ? -- 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.
