Re: GWT sometimes reinventing the wheels

2011-01-12 Thread Thomas Broyer
On Wednesday, January 12, 2011 9:16:06 PM UTC+1, markM wrote: > > I think it's important for folks to understand that they're not > writing in Java and to appreciate the times when it truly feels like > they are because the GWT team has done such an excellent job. +1 It smells like Java, it

Re: GWT sometimes reinventing the wheels

2011-01-12 Thread markM
I think it's important for folks to understand that they're not writing in Java and to appreciate the times when it truly feels like they are because the GWT team has done such an excellent job. When a thread like this happens I call it "the book of Job" because the end user often times doesn't kn

Re: GWT sometimes reinventing the wheels

2011-01-11 Thread Olivier GĂ©rardin
GWT had to do I18N the way it's done precisely because of the constraints imposed by Javascript compilation and the choices made for optimization, in particular the notion of "permutation" which requires that every possible combination of browser and target language is compiled separately. Instead

Re: GWT sometimes reinventing the wheels

2011-01-11 Thread Gal Dolber
Gwt didn't support java logging since recently, cause some limitations on the compiler. I agree with you on the uibinder + i18n, that could be much simpler. I am using apt on guit to make that simpler (http://code.google.com/p/guit/source/browse/trunk/GuitPlugin/src/guitplugin/I18nProcessor.java?r=

Re: GWT sometimes reinventing the wheels

2011-01-11 Thread Paul Robinson
GWT translates your java source into javascript. That means that your GWT java isn't "true" java, and there are things you just cannot do because at the end of the day, it has to work in javascript. The use of many third party java libraries is precluded by the javascript translation because th

GWT sometimes reinventing the wheels

2011-01-11 Thread Aladdin
First I wanna say that I love GWT. But I feel that GWT sometimes reinvent the wheels or try to create new tools that we need to relearn instead of relaying on Java & other Java's open source projects. UiBinder and I18N. Java already has a Resource Bundle feature. I think Google is confused about