Re: HTML identifiers are not generated properly for some SmartGWT components

2013-08-27 Thread ckendrick
Please take a look at the Automated Testing overview for SmartGWT: http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee-latest/javadoc/com/smartgwt/client/docs/AutomatedTesting.html If you aren't using one of the tools here, pay special attention to the Other Tools section, which explains that SmartGWT

Re: GWT vs SmartGWT

2012-10-30 Thread ckendrick
Hi Kumar, SmartGWT has an extensive subsystem for interacting directly with WSDL web services from the browser. Some samples here: http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee/showcase/#data_integration_server_wsdl_weather This is all part of the free LGPL product, assuming you don't need a

Re: Smart GWT / GWT Ext.... which one is better?

2012-09-17 Thread ckendrick
(d) does not apply to SmartGWT. No GWT update has ever broken SmartGWT or broken backcompat. (e) does not apply to SmartGWT. Nightlies are available for all editions - see smartclient.com/builds (c) presumably means customizing a widget by messing with it's DOM or overriding internal

Re: Smart GWT / GWT Ext.... which one is better?

2012-09-17 Thread ckendrick
(d) no release of GWT has ever broken SmartGWT. We don't rely on much from GWT other than Java-JavaScript translation, so there is little room for something to break. (c) This may refer to breakage from customizations like modifying a component's DOM or overriding internals. In SmartGWT we

Re: SmartGWT

2012-05-23 Thread ckendrick
Isomorphic Support routinely receives kudos from customers and the community, with 20-30 forum posts a day coming right from the dev and support teams. When we aren't helping individuals, we're creating new samples and writing new docs for everyone. This person (sbt) is not a customer, posted

Re: To smart GWT or not

2010-12-02 Thread ckendrick
Sorry that's quite absurd: SmartGWT is often introduced to solve performance problems, and it solves them. SmartGWT is intentionally designed to have a one-time-ever download of a feature rich runtime in exchange for reducing subsequent server requests. For example, Adaptive Filtering greatly

Re: anything like smartgwt but totally compatible with gwt?

2010-11-15 Thread ckendrick
That JMeter testing sounds invalid. You're simulating the repeated download of static resources that in reality happens once ever per user. SmartGWT is designed for applications that are used more than once per user, and/or that users spend at least a few minutes with. In that scenario,

Re: Memory Leak IE7 GWT 2.0.4

2010-09-08 Thread ckendrick
understandable that experience with some previous framework would make someone think so, but it's very easy in SmartGWT, and we think an explicit destroy() is the right approach in terms of giving us the opportunity to work around browser garbage collection bugs. On Sep 7, 7:22 pm, ckendrick charles.kendr

Re: Memory Leak IE7 GWT 2.0.4

2010-09-07 Thread ckendrick
Just a note on SmartGWT - Built-in GWT widgets rely on the browser to garbage collect a detached DOM tree. In older browsers like IE6/7 we found a number of cases where this didn't work completely, so we opted for manual destroy(). It's possible that as of IE8/9 all such leaks are gone

Re: HELP Problem JPA with the datasource of smartGWT

2010-06-17 Thread ckendrick
You should post this in the SmartGWT forums at forums.smartclient.com. On Jun 14, 8:09 am, samounas elmokhtari.as...@gmail.com wrote: Can u help me please? On 14 juin, 14:55, samounas elmokhtari.as...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a problem with the file mapping of JPA anddatasource.xmlof

Re: GWT or SmartGWT and Oracle - Stored procedures

2010-06-17 Thread ckendrick
Be sure to compare the cost of the product to the value of your time spent re-creating the same functionality, maintaining it, and missing out on all features we keep adding to the SQL subsystem. As well as not finishing your project as soon, slipping deadlines etc. As well as delivering a

Re: gwt webgl smartgwt

2010-05-11 Thread ckendrick
What layout issue on what browser with what code? This is not a known issue, so to get it addressed, post a test case to the SmartGWT forums: http://forums.smartclient.com/forumdisplay.php?f=14 On May 11, 12:25 pm, Alan Chaney a...@mechnicality.com wrote: Hi I've started to build an

Re: GWT Grid vs. SmartGWT grid

2010-03-15 Thread ckendrick
too much to deliver for the ultralight use case. It's just different designs for different use cases. I hope the core GWT widgets continue to focus on the ultralight use case, because there's just nothing comparable, especially for mobile. On Mar 12, 12:44 pm, ckendrick charles.kendr...@gmail.com

Re: GWT Grid vs. SmartGWT grid

2010-03-12 Thread ckendrick
And here are the authors to disagree :) 1) Yes, we make intentional departures from the GWT way, such as.. 2) SmartGWT has better cross-browser consistency than GWT itself. Why? Because GWT relies on native browser behavior and CSS for layout, and this is where all the quirks come from. We do

[ANN] Smart GWT Pro/EE 2.1 released

2010-03-09 Thread ckendrick
In addition to new client-side features already detailed here: http://www.jroller.com/sjivan/entry/smart_gwt_2_1_released New server features: * New built-in server-side validators isUnique makes it trivial to enforce common cases like having a unique user name.

Re: Smart GWT Pro/EE 2.1 released

2010-03-09 Thread ckendrick
Apologies for the second posting. Some links were mangled, they are corrected below. In addition to new client-side features already detailed here: http://www.jroller.com/sjivan/entry/smart_gwt_2_1_released New server features: * New built-in server-side validators isUnique

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-02-15 Thread ckendrick
Carl, On skins, you don't sound as though you've looked at the Showcase since 2.0, when we made a series of improvements which now has most users commenting that our skins are sharper than GXTs. On grids, this is the first time I've ever seen someone claim the GXT grids are better, I really

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-02-15 Thread ckendrick
advantages related to grids, however this and my previous post are probably the best answer to the original question: what are the technical advantages. On Feb 15, 12:02 pm, ckendrick charles.kendr...@gmail.com wrote: Carl, On skins, you don't sound as though you've looked at the Showcase since 2.0

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-02-11 Thread ckendrick
Just to sum up, the only people in this thread reporting negative hands-on experiences with SmartGWT have all gone against our explicit advice in the documentation, FAQ, and in some cases, personal attention in the forums. The only person with hands-on experience claiming there are bugs turned

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-02-04 Thread ckendrick
@Jeff, ahhughes: as far as the built-in GWT widgets, they are well- designed and fine for simple things, but if your requirement is to have a grid that supports full-row inline editing, grouping, filtering, frozen columns, paging through large datasets, resizable/ reorderable headers with

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-02-03 Thread ckendrick
Re: widgets inside grid rows: not only is it out of the box in SmartGWT, there are multiple out of the box modes for it, including nested editable grids. http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/#featured_nested_grid

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-02-01 Thread ckendrick
Library. ckendrick and I have different understandings about override ... :-P We already discussed this some time ago ... SmartGWT you can't override it's functionality, just it's behavior. SmartGWT is more feature rich than GXT, but I don't like their licensing terms, I prefer GXT one

Re: Ext/GXT/ExtGWT v2.1.0 vs. SmartGWT v2.0

2010-01-29 Thread ckendrick
With SmartGWT you can also extend widgets and override methods in pure Java. Just a tour through the SmartGWT and SmartGWT Pro/EE showcases should be enough to identify a number of feature advantages which may matter for your application. http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/showcase/

Re: SmartGWT?!

2010-01-13 Thread ckendrick
On Jan 12, 3:43 pm, Open eSignForms yoz...@gmail.com wrote: If you need the widgets now, SmartGWT seems like a fine solution, and the LGPL is a nice license if you don't otherwise need their server-side/enterprise features. Pure GWT just doesn't have those grids and such yet, but it sounds

Re: Use smartgwt or not

2010-01-12 Thread ckendrick
Incorrect, SmartGWT allows both. Purchasing a license does not imply that you *must* use the closed-source server-side portion. If you use just the capabilities of SmartGWT LGPL, you can offer the LGPL licensing terms to customers that prefer it, and you can purchase a license from Isomorphic to

Re: SmartGWT?!

2010-01-12 Thread ckendrick
On Jan 12, 12:39 pm, Kenny G ken.grei...@gmail.com wrote:   I found it well worth the time to use, even though I did not use the Datasource features to populate grids. Whoah! Kenny you should really try the DataSource feature next time, you have so far used less than half of what even the free

Re: Use smartgwt or not

2010-01-04 Thread ckendrick
On Dec 26 2009, 3:51 am, gaill...@audemat.com gaill...@audemat.com wrote: You can't stat about 'uninformed choice', quick doesn't mean dirty Even creating new widgets could be made easily with GWT, with SmartGWT we must have good javascript skill to achieve the same task This statement is

Re: Use smartgwt or not

2009-12-24 Thread ckendrick
If the choice was made quickly it was probably an uninformed choice. We don't have anyone complaining that there is less customization so perhaps you could clarify that. With SmartGWT Pro and EE, you can literally open up a visual tool and create a fully functional CRUD interface to Hibernate by

Re: Who is using smartgwt?

2009-08-17 Thread ckendrick
- not every override point from SmartClient is yet available in SmartGWT, but we are getting closer to that all the time. On Aug 16, 8:45 pm, Tercio Filho terciofi...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 16, 7:39 pm, ckendrick charles.kendr...@gmail.com wrote: @tercio You're still missing the key point

Re: Who is using smartgwt?

2009-08-16 Thread ckendrick
a purchase of SmartGWT Pro, where the amount of SmartGWT-specific server code involved is literally zero for many cases, and very small for the others. On Aug 16, 12:27 pm, Tercio Filho terciofi...@gmail.com wrote: @ckendrick The way SmartGWT works, every component caches it's data, independently

Re: Who is using smartgwt?

2009-08-15 Thread ckendrick
is the way to go, but remember that your minimum app is going to be 1mb in size because of the SmartGWT core files. On Aug 14, 10:34 pm, ckendrick charles.kendr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Malte, As far as once-ever load time, if you're building an enterprise application

Re: Who is using smartgwt?

2009-08-14 Thread ckendrick
Hi Malte, As far as once-ever load time, if you're building an enterprise application with several screens and lots of productivity features, you're going to be using substantially all of SmartClient - if it was written in Java, the impact of the GWT compiler's static analysis would be

Re: Modelling framework

2009-08-10 Thread ckendrick
://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/download.jsp isn't working. On Aug 4, 9:16 pm, ckendrick charles.kendr...@gmail.com wrote: We do give you the ability get in and override any part of the generated SQL as a Velocity template.  Simple example:    http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwtee/showcase

Re: Modelling framework

2009-08-04 Thread ckendrick
With SmartGWT you can represent a data structure as a DataSource. A DataSource can be tied to any kind of data provider - not just different JPA implementers but also WSDL web services, REST services, non-JPA persistence systems like Ibatis, etc. The persistence engine is pluggable, so you can

Re: Modelling framework

2009-08-04 Thread ckendrick
DataSource in SmartGWT EE. On Aug 4, 4:16 pm, John Ivens john.wagner.iv...@gmail.com wrote: There are no examples that I know of actually showing a connection, for example with a sample mysql database or really anything else.  Please correct me if I'm wrong. On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, ckendrick

Re: Modelling framework

2009-08-04 Thread ckendrick
, where I kludged Hibernate to be able to store XML in the database? On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 4:38 PM, ckendrick charles.kendr...@gmail.comwrote: Hi John, For live connections to SQL, Hibernate and other data providers see the SmartGWT Pro/EE showcase:    http://www.smartclient.com

Re: SmartGWT vs GWT-Ext Evaluation

2009-07-16 Thread ckendrick
If you use the free version, you use RestDataSource as the starting point for integration. RestDataSource simply specifies XML or JSON messages to send and receive with your server; it is totally agnostic as to how your server is implemented (it could, for instance, be PHP).

[Announce] SmartGWT Enterprise Edition available now

2009-03-30 Thread ckendrick
SmartGWT is an popular, open source, extremely rich widget library and databinding framework for GWT, available under the LGPL. SmartGWT Enterprise Edition (SmartGWT EE for short) is a commercially licensed version of SmartGWT that includes Java Server side functionality, additional tools, and a

Re: Need for a great GWT GUI library

2008-12-21 Thread ckendrick
If SmartGWT seems slow, just disable Firebug or similar development utilities, and be sure you haven't done anything like completely disabling browser caching. For normal end users who don't have these tools or settings, it's quick. On Dec 19, 7:13 am, Juan Backson juanback...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: SmartGWT 1.0 Released

2008-11-24 Thread ckendrick
Lest anyone get the wrong idea from francesco, when using SmartGWT you can debug your GWT *application* code normally within hosted mode. If you had a need to debug the core SmartClient libraries (normal users will not have a need to do this), you'd use debugging tools like Firebug and