Hi, I hope that we can talk about this in this community: I am currently playing around with Vaadin and I would like to understand the basic principles. I know that Vaadin uses GWT to render the GUI at the client. But there seems to be another fundamental difference...
In GWT you always have the distinction between server side and client side. At server side you can include third party java libraries, while at client side you can control the GUI in the browser, but you have no access to your server side stuff, e. g. database and that. If you need access to it, you have to make a RPC call. In Vaadin, at the first sight, there seems to be no such differentiation. There is just a piece of code, like the one generated by the eclipse project wizard, and the app shows up in the browser. There is no distinction between server and client side code. You *can* do client side development, but you do not need to. The code generated by the eclipse wizard reminds of a good old "Hello World" code. A few lines and it works. No RPC call to the server. But how does this work? How can I understand this? How gets all the GUI stuff to the browser? How can it be that everything is server-side, even the GUI code? Thanks Magnus -- 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/d/optout.
