Re: [gwt-contrib] Thoughts on DevMode

2017-01-12 Thread Ivan Markov
I agree that the debugging experience of GWT can be improved. That might happen either by trying to resurrect DevMode by hacking on Chromium and the JVM, or by implementing Java watch expressions and conditional breakpoints in Chrome Devtools / Eclipse SDBG. I think the second approach might be

Re: [gwt-contrib] Thoughts on DevMode

2017-01-12 Thread CodeLess
I agree 100% with everything you said. I was thinking exactly about this idea (when I first saw dartium). I was wondering why it's not done in gwt the similar thing long time ago (DevMode with special version of Chromium) ? SDM in Chrome or Eclipse (with sdbg) is nothing comparing to DevMode. It

[gwt-contrib] Thoughts on DevMode

2017-01-12 Thread sannysan...@gmail.com
Hello, GWT people. GWT got its popularity because it allowed DevMode in the browser (run java in VM in browser, manipulate DOM, use your IDE!). In fact, the GWT project appeared as clever hack on hack on hack to stretch limits of possible, to be ahead of its time, and that was cool. Nobody