[gwt-contrib] Re: Time to remove GWT-RPC from WebAppCreator sample app?

2017-04-20 Thread Jens
I don't think so. There are more important questions to think about, like: How will GWT 3 look like? Which features will carry over? Who ports what? When to start porting, given that JsInterop 1.0 and a beta of jsinterop.base is available? Do we create a new repository for GWT 3 to give it a

[gwt-contrib] Re: Time to remove GWT-RPC from WebAppCreator sample app?

2017-04-20 Thread Colin Alworth
Dissenting opinion, mostly for the sake of discussion (though I'll admit to being an RPC fanboy too): This came up in discussion in ##gwt today, from the other perspective - the stockwatcher app uses JsonpRequestBuilder, which is incompatible with JsType without some seriously fugly casts (as

[gwt-contrib] Time to remove GWT-RPC from WebAppCreator sample app?

2017-04-20 Thread Thomas Broyer
Should we start thinking about removing GWT-RPC from our sample app? (and probably tutorial on the web site) What would we replace it with though? I'd suggest plain old HTTP with JSON and JsInterop; but what about the server? Using HTTP POST with manually-encoded