Gmail uses a fat client - which is what GWT grew out of. -- Jeremy Thomerson http://www.wickettraining.com
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Carlo Camerino <cmcamer...@gmail.com> wrote: > ya i guess they are mostly for rich internet applications use.First thing > I'd have to work on is to have tight with integration with a specific > javascript framework. > > Wonder how gmail does it. > Offline gmail simply is the best. > > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 11:39 PM, Ryan Gravener <r...@ryangravener.com>wrote: > >> I would just make an adobe air application for offline use. >> >> >> Ryan Gravener >> http://isithotinhereorisitjust.me | http://twitter.com/ryangravener >> >> >> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Jeremy Thomerson < >> jer...@wickettraining.com >> > wrote: >> >> > I haven't looked into Gears at great length, but I think you may be up >> > against a wall here - where the two may be incompatible. Offline >> > gears applications require fat clients. Wicket isn't typically for >> > making fat clients because everything about it ties it back to the >> > server. >> > >> > If you already have it such that each office has their own server and >> > database, then it seems that this isn't a product development problem >> > so much as it's a network support issue. How often should the network >> > within an office really be down? I'd try to push this problem back up >> > the management chain. >> > >> > Conceptually, it's a cool idea, though. Let us know if you have any >> > success. >> > >> > -- >> > Jeremy Thomerson >> > http://www.wickettraining.com >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Carlo Camerino <cmcamer...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > Is there any project which has Wicket And Google Gears Integration? >> > > Wicket has really done a lot of us in speeding up development time. >> > Coming >> > > from a struts we saw the power of Wicket in terms its reusability and >> > i've >> > > noticed that >> > > wicket already did most of the tasks that we would have to manually do >> > using >> > > struts application, like session timeouts, redirects, etc.... >> > > >> > > One of our main concerns however are that clients >> > > are asking for our applications to be available even if the network is >> > down >> > > or if the central server is down.. >> > > Currently we implemented our applications in a distributed fashion >> > wherein >> > > every branch ( Remote Location) has its own server. >> > > However, this has implications of cost and administration issues. >> > > However, if offline mode is enabled we can just begin syncing right. >> > > >> > > I think that Wicket WIth Google Gears Application will make it even >> > better . >> > > >> > > >> > > I think this is really a plus when it comes to marketing it to >> customers. >> > > Most of the applications that we create our banking applications and >> any >> > > downtime is costing our clients. >> > > >> > > Hopefully we can also do this to offload the central servers and to put >> > > processing into client machines. >> > > >> > > One large problem I see though is that most code wil have to be moved >> to >> > the >> > > Browser Layer. >> > > I'm thinking of how to create a wicket application which is mostly run >> by >> > > java classes work on the client side. >> > > Looks as if there will be a lot of code changes... >> > > I'm not really sure if it would be a totally different programming >> model. >> > > >> > > Anyone out there tried to integrate Gears And Wicket >> > > >> > > Carlo >> > > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org >> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org >> > >> > >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@wicket.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@wicket.apache.org
