Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-22 Thread Eric Clayberg
At design time in GWT Designer, the runtime environment needed to handle a live RPC call simply does not exist. If your UI is primarily constructed dynamically based on the results of info available at runtime, a static UI design tool like GTW Designer (or any UI builder for that matter) would not

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-22 Thread Eric Clayberg
In order to provide the WYSIWYG editing and rendering experience, GWT Designer needs to start up the GWT dev mode the first time you access it during a session. That does lead to a slow start (which is not present in the companion tools for Swing and SWT), and is an area that we are investigating.

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-22 Thread Eric Clayberg
>The latter will give you more flexibility I'm curious about this. In the Java case, GWT Designer's parser can reverse engineer most hand-written code and its code generator can be configured to match most coding styles. It is general quite forgiving about manual refactoring and has nice support f

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Thad
While I have not yet tried UIBinder on a problem in my environment, I did try GWT Designer. Very quickly I went back to coding my UI by hand. My interface is largely shaped by the results of calls to a database via a clearly defined API. That means I make a lot of GWT RPC calls and act on the re

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread a...@mechnicality.com
Totally agree with you comments, Jeff. I evaluated GWTDesigner because, generally speaking, I like RAD tools. However, I found it very slow to start - maybe a bug or something - but, being comparatively happy with XML, HTML and CSS I found that my workflow was smoother using UiBinder and it was

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Schwartz
If that is indeed the question he is asking then no one but himself can answer it but perhaps he can come to an answer by asking himself the following: Am I knowledgeable in HTML and CSS and am I comfortable hand crafting my markup? If he answers yes to this then perhaps he will prefer to use UiBi

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Matthew Hill
The true question he is probably asking is should he use a WYSIWYG tool or write the interface by hand. My advice would be to try both. The latter will give you more flexibility. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Eric Clayberg
GWT Designer is a GUI design tool while UiBinder is an XML-based framework for specifying GWT UIs. GWT Designer can generate GWT code using Java or XML (UiBinder), so you can consider GWT Designer to be a tool for using UiBinder. It would not be appropriate to compare/ contrast them (as has already

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Jeff Schwartz
I use UiBinder and like it a lot because it allows me to do my markup using UiBinder's HTML like XML tags which, if you like to code in HTML, is a real benefit over coding your interface using Java. I don't but I could pass off any one of my UiBinder xml files to a designer and they wouldn't feel l

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Thomas Broyer
Er, he wanted to know the difference between them and which one would be better; and the answer is that they're not comparable. Is Eclipse better than Java ? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send emai

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-21 Thread Ice13ill
I believe that junaidp was expecting a more detailed answer :) On Dec 20, 6:37 pm, Thomas Broyer wrote: > UiBinder is a feature of GWT that generates Java code from XML files to > describe user interfaces. > > GWT Designer is a developer tool that allows you to generate Java code * > and/or* UiBi

Re: UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Broyer
UiBinder is a feature of GWT that generates Java code from XML files to describe user interfaces. GWT Designer is a developer tool that allows you to generate Java code * and/or* UiBinder XML using a *designer* (RAD) rather than typing it by hand in a text editor. -- You received this message

UiBinder or GWT Designer

2010-12-20 Thread junaidp
Hi , I would like to know the difference in UiBinder and GWT Designer like which one is better if i'm using GWT Designer for my interface and not using any java code for the interface ,will i still be requiring UiBinder. Will there be any benefit of UiBinder over GWT Designer . Thanks Regards Ju