Why was benchmarking removed in GWT 2.6?

2021-12-01 Thread Alex Epshteyn
This seemed like a very useful feature back in the day, and I'm really curious to know the reasoning behind its removal in release 2.6.0 (RC1) . Does anyone remember? -- You received this message because you are subscribed t

Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2017-11-09 Thread Alex Epshteyn
tch > file (containing only the differences to the GWT SDK) or only the modified > classes? > > Am Mittwoch, 8. November 2017 04:30:20 UTC+1 schrieb Alex Epshteyn: >> >> This project is now on GitHub: >> https://github.com/aepshteyn/gwt-stack-trace-kit >> >> Y

Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2017-11-07 Thread Alex Epshteyn
ike to continue this effort and port this over to the latest GWT branch, I'll do my best to help! On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 at 4:56:40 PM UTC-4, Alex Epshteyn wrote: > > Dear fellow GWT users, > > I would like to announce that I have finally solved what I always thought > to

Re: Google Chrome 35 GWT plugin incompatibility

2014-07-11 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Although the GWT plugin for Chrome can no longer be installed from the chrome store since version 35, you can still install it manually (at least under Windows) and it works just fine. I posted the instructions here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/QSEjbhhHB4g/tQSwltonVMIJ an

Re: Development Mode will not be supported in Firefox 27+

2014-07-11 Thread Alex Epshteyn
As of now, quite sadly, the GWT plugin is no longer supported in the latest of versions of Firefox nor Chrome (starting with 35). I've been using GWT since 2006, and I think it's a sad state of affairs that after so much work went into GWT's OOPHM (a.k.a "Development Mode"), we're back to Intern

Re: [gwt-contrib] Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Hi Colin, please find my answers inline: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Colin Alworth wrote: > I got a tweet from you asking for a donation (or rather a 'partner', which > apparently means 'money'), but couldn't frame a useful response in 140 > chars, so since this thread is coming back, I th

Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2013-08-19 Thread Alex Epshteyn
y GWT-based UI code that I would NEVER found otherwise. Let's get this capability into GWT by the end of the year. Please donate! Thanks, Alex On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:56:40 PM UTC-4, Alex Epshteyn wrote: > > Dear fellow GWT users, > > I would like to announce that I have

Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2013-07-24 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Alfredo: thanks for your $25 contribution! I've just emailed you my patch along with a small demo project. Would be great if we could get more people to pitch in with some funding. Any corporate takers? Johannes: IndieGoGo asked me to come up with "perks" to offer to people who contribute mo

Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2013-07-18 Thread Alex Epshteyn
In response to some of the concerns expressed in this thread, I'd like to clarify that by using my patch, you will not be making any trade-offs versus what you previously had with GWT's old implementation: my patch will give you all "pros" and no "cons." Here's why: There are two ways to get p

Re: I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Epshteyn
P :) I'm hoping to! Please consider making a donation and spread the word about my campaign: http://igg.me/at/gwt-stack-traces/x/3494291 :) Thanks guys. Any other questions? (I'm really excited to be having this discussion with all of you, after working on it in isolation for so lon

I'm enhancing GWT to provide Java stack traces for clientside exceptions in production

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Dear fellow GWT users, I would like to announce that I have finally solved what I always thought to be GWT's greatest weakness: its lack of debugging information for client-side exceptions in production. With my patch, your deployed app will be able to report stack traces like this: com.goo

Re: Exception reporting is broken in GWT: would you support a kickstarter project to fix it?

2013-05-23 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Fair enough, but I'm curious to know why leaving the code that supports legacy browsers would interfere with implementing new features. For example, if you want to implement a new widget called XPanel, it think it's perfectly fine to say that this widget doesn't support IE6/7/8, and leave it up to

Re: Exception reporting is broken in GWT: would you support a kickstarter project to fix it?

2013-05-23 Thread Alex Epshteyn
n Windows XP: that is a very big number! On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Thomas Broyer wrote: > > > On Wednesday, May 22, 2013 11:53:47 PM UTC+2, Alex Epshteyn wrote: >> >> Thanks for your comment. Let me respond to your points: >> >> 1) I've seen this poin

Re: Exception reporting is broken in GWT: would you support a kickstarter project to fix it?

2013-05-22 Thread Alex Epshteyn
if more browsers add column info in the future, it's almost certain that their stack trace formats will all be different, so we'll have to patch GWT every time a new browser adds the support. My proposed project will leave us in good shape to be able to do that easily. On Wed, May 22, 2013 at

Re: Exception reporting is broken in GWT: would you support a kickstarter project to fix it?

2013-05-22 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Thanks for your comment. Let me respond to your points: 1) I've seen this point discussed before, and the standard counter-argument is that the spirit of OSS is free as in "freedom," not "beer." Lots of developers get paid to work on OSS projects. 2) This is actually one of the reasons I'm thin

Exception reporting is broken in GWT: would you support a kickstarter project to fix it?

2013-05-22 Thread Alex Epshteyn
One of the big problems with deployed GWT apps has always been the impossibility of tracing JavaScript exceptions back to the Java source code. What we need is a true equivalent of Java stack traces. There was an effort made by the GWT team a couple years ago to solve this problem ( https://code

Re: How to override module definitions

2009-08-31 Thread Alex Epshteyn
TTP round trip for gwt-dnd.css incurred by the src="..."/> configuration you mention below. > Hope that helps. > Fred > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Alex Epshteyn > wrote: >> >> Surprisingly was unable to find any prior discussions about this... >&

How to override module definitions

2009-08-17 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Surprisingly was unable to find any prior discussions about this... I'm optimizing my app's load time by merging all my stylesheets into a single CSS file (then minifying it with YUI compressor), to reduce the number of HTTP requests. I'd like to also concatenate all the stylesheets from third p

Re: Problems with ImageBundle in IE8 when not in compatibility mode

2009-05-16 Thread Alex Epshteyn
BE CAREFUL when copying code from this page - Thomas Broyer's comment has an error. The correct meta tag to add is be sure the first attribute is http-equiv, not name! (wasted 20 minutes on this) I can confirm that this tag fixes the problem with ImabeBundle. Be sure to read http://msdn.mic

Re: Problem in developing opensocial application in GWT

2009-01-15 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Hi Yasser, I'm actually not using GWT in directly my OS gadget - I have an iframe inside the gadget that loads my GWT app. However, I'm sure you can use GWT RPC quite easily in the gadget - as long as your compiled JS has the same URL as your RPC server. Best, Alex (I'm CC-ing this message to

Re: Who's Using GWT?

2008-12-22 Thread Alex Epshteyn
http://play.typeracer.com Too many tips and tricks to enumerate here :) On Dec 11, 8:39 pm, Sumit Chandel wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We've recently updated the GWT homepage to include a page displaying a > non-exhaustive list of applications that are built with GWT. We were > also able to cap

Re: GWT hosted mode in infinity loop when debugging

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Epshteyn
I think I just solved the problem by reverting my IntelliJ project files to an earlier state. It wasn't any new code that I had written - looks like just the project files got out of whack somehow. Good to back those up often. On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Alex Epshteyn wrote: >

Re: GWT hosted mode in infinity loop when debugging

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Matic, I just started having the exact same problem! I'm using IntelliJ not Eclipse, though. The debugger just keeps looping. When I forcibly pause the process, I see that it's always somewhere in the RPC service instantiation process and never finishes it (i.e. GWT.create()). I don't think t

Re: Native GWT Compiler

2008-12-11 Thread Alex Epshteyn
N is some number greater than 1, depending on how > many threads you want to use to compile your GWT application. Sorry for not > mentioning this earlier. > > Hope that helps, > -Sumit Chandel > > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Alex Epshteyn > wrote: >> >>

Re: Multithreaded GWT Compiler

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Epshteyn
(Just changing the title of this thread to match actual discussion subject). On Dec 10, 2:50 am, Alex Epshteyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know the answer to this question asked by Dobes: > > > I checked out the trunk and I'm running thecompilerfrom it, but

Re: Native GWT Compiler

2008-12-09 Thread Alex Epshteyn
rformance boost and only one CPU core is being used. > Is there a command-line switch to turn on multiple threads? > > On Nov 12, 10:56 am, Alex Epshteyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi Sumit, > > > This multithreadedcompilersounds intriguing.  Could you provid

Re: Your opinion sought: Jetty or Tomcat?

2008-12-02 Thread Alex Epshteyn
I've been mulling this over the past couple of weeks, and now I want to retract my initial objection about Jetty :) Mainly because, as Arthur and others pointed out, it's expected to speed up unit tests (which would be a huge win). And you don't need -noserver for most of the unit tests you migh

Re: Your opinion sought: Jetty or Tomcat?

2008-11-24 Thread Alex Epshteyn
earch into making the compiler faster. > I can't say as much about the Java line from JavaScript exception feature, > but it sounds like it would be a great feature to have (and a great > candidate as a Request For Enhancement on the Issue Tracker). > > Issue Tracker: > http://cod

Re: Your opinion sought: Jetty or Tomcat?

2008-11-21 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Bruce, I might be too late in replying to this thread, but I want to phrase my objections to what you've proposed. A. Regarding Jetty: I think this will be a waste of time for everyone. Switching underlying servers is a "no value added" task (using Six Sigma vocabulary). 1). Many developers

Re: Native GWT Compiler

2008-11-17 Thread Alex Epshteyn
ew multi-threaded compiler is available in trunk if > you're interested" > > use it : like the google web toolkit . > > regards . > > Le mercredi 12 novembre 2008 à 10:56 -0800, Alex Epshteyn a écrit : > > > Hi Sumit, > > > Thismultithreadedcompiler s

Re: Native GWT Compiler

2008-11-12 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Hi Sumit, This multithreaded compiler sounds intriguing. Could you provide some guidance about how to get it and use it? Thanks, Alex On Oct 13, 1:08 pm, "Sumit Chandel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Rauf, > There are currently no plans to rewrite the GWT compiler as a native > compiler. The

Re: Image Anchor widget.

2008-11-04 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Filed a bug for this: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3080 On Sep 29, 7:33 am, Marcelo Emanoel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try this: > > > > import com.google.gwt.dom.client.AnchorElement; > import com.google.gwt.dom.client.DivElement; > import com.google.gwt.dom.c

Re: Warning about using float fields with RPC (shocking bug)

2008-09-18 Thread Alex Epshteyn
esentations with a single digit after the decimal point in > the decimal -> float -> decimal conversion, but not in the decimal -> > float -> double -> decimal conversion. > > For example: > 28.4 = 0x1C.66 (6 repeating, cut to 32 bits) = > 28.3997615814208984375 &g

Warning about using float fields with RPC (shocking bug)

2008-09-17 Thread Alex Epshteyn
Amazing but true: only a hanful of all possible float values will be serialized correctly on the server end of GWT RPC. Examples: 28.4 => 28.39618530273 28.5 => 28.5 28.6 => 28.60381469727 28.7 => 28.70762939453 28.9 => 28.89618530273 Fortunately this should be easy to fix. See