Some thoughts on using SmartGWT: * The SmartGWT developers are VERY insistent that you should develop your application using their APIs and structure, as otherwise you are "wasting time" and "duplicating effort" they've already put in. To be fair, they do have a bit of a point in that they have designed things to work a certain way, and put a lot of time into that structure. * That said, SmartGWT has enough flexibility that you can somewhat pick and choose how you use it, including just using the UI aspects. For example, there's a post in the SmartGWT forum that offers up a subclass of the DataSource feature that uses GWT-RPC for communication instead of SmartGWT's normal protocol. I've got an application that uses SmartGWT for the client UI, GWT-RPC for communication with the server, and Play 1.2 (with the Play-GWT module) as the backend, rather than servlets and stuff. * SmartGWT does add a pretty significant bump to your compiled JS size, at least 500K or so.
Overall, I'd say if you have a number of UI pieces you need to use, SmartGWT's an option, but probably overkill if you just need one new widget. On Sunday, February 16, 2014 6:43:09 PM UTC-5, new_newbie wrote: > > Hi > > I need a collapse/expand panel, and SmartGWT is providing an > out-of-the-box solution. However, the installation has to remove all the > rpc configuration that I have created for long time. > > *Adding Smart GWT Pro/Power/EE to an existing project* > *Important:* If you have created a project using the GWT Plugin for > Eclipse or a similar tool, first get rid of unused resources typically > included in such "starter projects": > > - from your *moduleName*.gwt.xml file, remove imports of any GWT > themes, leaving only the import of com.google.gwt.user.User. The > proper imports to add for Smart GWT Pro/Power/EE are shown below. > - get rid of any sample servlets or GWT-RPC services (delete both > web.xml entries and server-side source) > > I need a package that offers more GUI components and compatible with my > existing gwt project. > Any recommendation? > Is GWT-Ext a good choice? > > Thanks > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
