Hello everyone after discussing the topic with a college, I realized I have to explain the context of my proposal.
There is no application independent mechanism in GWT to dynamically load extensions. Consequently, GWT applications either do not support it or implement plug-in loading on their own. I am convinced this has to be changed, mainly because of two obervations: The dramatically increasing popularity of both (1) AppStores, e.g. Apple App Store, Android Market, and (2) browser/web applications. To support AppStore concepts in web applications, the GWT/AppEngine community would profit from having an application independent framework for the management of application extensions, i.e. plug-ins, apps, or add-ons. Kind regards Ingo 2011/1/17 Ingo Jaeckel <ingo.jaec...@googlemail.com>: > Hello everyone > > I wrote a short article proposes a plug-in management architecture for > GWT/AppEngine applications, see > http://honeycrm.googlecode.com/files/BoostExtensibilityAndSimplifyMaintainabilityOfWebApplicationsProposalsForGoogleWebToolkitPlugInArchitectures.pdf. > Now, I would like to invite the community to discuss my proposal. > Thanks in advance to everyone for reading and discussing the proposal. > > Abstract: The extensibility of Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications > running on the Google App Engine platform is currently limited due to > the absence of a plug-in infrastructure. Even though for desktop, > server, and web applications, plug-ins have been existing for decades, > they are not prevalent in GWT today. In this article, I outline the > development environment restrictions that make it a challenge to > provide dynamic plug-in loading support. I assume that the > introduction of a plug-in architecture would dramatically enhance the > extensibility and the maintainability of GWT applications. Therefore, > this article proposes approaches for statically and dynamically loaded > plug-ins for GWT applications. > > Kind regards > > Ingo > -- 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-toolkit@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.
