Re: Designer- Engineer workflow with GWT
Hi Ip, We had a blog post on the GWT blog a little while ago talking about applying style to your GWT application. The post was written by the folks behind StudyBlue.net, and I think it does a great job of talking about best practices you should use to get style into your GWT applications and how how those practices can help create a good flow between designers and engineers. I would recommend you check it out (link below). GWT: No need to shortchange your style: http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2008/12/gwt-no-need-to-shortchange-your-style.html Hope that helps, -Sumit Chandel On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 4:36 PM, lp lpalaniap...@drillinginfo.com wrote: We have recently started using GWT to develop a few complex widgets. The people who are working on those projectrs are very good Java developers, however they lack css skills. We usually have an in-house web designer take care of the css styling for our products. With GWT, I am not sure how to bring about the co-ordination in workflow between the designer and the developer. I was wondering is there is a tried and tested workflow that is being followed in the GWT community to help solve this problem Thanks lp --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Designer- Engineer workflow with GWT
We have recently started using GWT to develop a few complex widgets. The people who are working on those projectrs are very good Java developers, however they lack css skills. We usually have an in-house web designer take care of the css styling for our products. With GWT, I am not sure how to bring about the co-ordination in workflow between the designer and the developer. I was wondering is there is a tried and tested workflow that is being followed in the GWT community to help solve this problem Thanks lp --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Designer- Engineer workflow with GWT
On 04/13/2009 04:36 PM, lp wrote: We have recently started using GWT to develop a few complex widgets. The people who are working on those projectrs are very good Java developers, however they lack css skills. We usually have an in-house web designer take care of the css styling for our products. With GWT, I am not sure how to bring about the co-ordination in workflow between the designer and the developer. I was wondering is there is a tried and tested workflow that is being followed in the GWT community to help solve this problem Workflow is a fairly ambiguous term. You'll have to decide how to integrate GWT into the work product of your design team. It might be hooking onto a series of static pages, or dynamically generating pages according to the design rules. GWT is flexible enough to handle a variety of implementation environments. Consider putting the shared files into a source code manager (SCM). GWT 1.6 has good support for Ant; which can interact w/ a SCM to pull updates from the SCM as they arrive from the design group. There is also GWT/Maven expertise floating around this list, so that may also be a good fit for your project. You'll have to describe a bit more of your web design process if you're looking to ensure that the design team has sufficient influence over the Java development. For example, is there a story board? Does the design team create the site look and feel sui generis via a tool like Dreamweaver? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Designer- Engineer workflow with GWT
So far we have used JSP ad HTML pages for laying out the web page. First we agree on the basic layout - i.e what data is displayed on a page, which UI control goes where etc. Then the java developer would create the server side java code and the jsp page with the basic controls laid out. Then we would put the files into SCM and the web designer would add in their updates. Now with GWT, we are building a charting wizard as a widget. The widget is going to be placed in one div tag in a jsp file. So we cannot follow the method we have following for so long. One thing that I can think of is : The web deisgner could create a parallel Mock HTML UI using dreamweaver or so and apply the css styles to that And the Java developers could pick the mock up from the SCM and find the parallels in the code and apply the styles. I was wondering how other people handle this issue. On Apr 13, 8:10 pm, Jeff Chimene jchim...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/13/2009 04:36 PM, lp wrote: We have recently started using GWT to develop a few complex widgets. The people who are working on those projectrs are very good Java developers, however they lack css skills. We usually have an in-house web designer take care of the css styling for our products. With GWT, I am not sure how to bring about the co-ordination in workflow between the designer and the developer. I was wondering is there is a tried and tested workflow that is being followed in the GWT community to help solve this problem Workflow is a fairly ambiguous term. You'll have to decide how to integrate GWT into the work product of your design team. It might be hooking onto a series of static pages, or dynamically generating pages according to the design rules. GWT is flexible enough to handle a variety of implementation environments. Consider putting the shared files into a source code manager (SCM). GWT 1.6 has good support for Ant; which can interact w/ a SCM to pull updates from the SCM as they arrive from the design group. There is also GWT/Maven expertise floating around this list, so that may also be a good fit for your project. You'll have to describe a bit more of your web design process if you're looking to ensure that the design team has sufficient influence over the Java development. For example, is there a story board? Does the design team create the site look and feel sui generis via a tool like Dreamweaver? --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ 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 -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
