Re: Migrating Java Project to GWT

[Strelok]

There is no information on the topic of migrating a desktop application to GWT because there is absolutely no mapping or even similarity between AWT/SWT and GWT, except the "WT" bit, and in the "WT" bit the only word that is the same is "toolkit" :)

You would have to completely re-write the whole application pretty much from scratch. Ofcourse you would be able to re-use any business logic you may have in server classes, but any presentation and user interface components will have to be re-written,

On Friday, July 20, 2012 9:17:42 PM UTC+10, Silas Pereira wrote:

Hi guys,

I am new with Google Web Toolkit, and I have a migration project to start with. It is an application in Java that I have to migrate to web using GWT.

As I am starting with, I am not finding many helpful websites about this topic, and I thought you as more experienced guys could lead me to more helpful sources. 

My first issue is that in the original project I have a JPanel extended class as the container for everything. And in GWT I have a RootPanel that doesn't work/add/get  JPanels, only with Widgets.

Would I have to write everything from scratch in GWT because there is no possible mapping between a JPanel-based project and a Widget-based one?

Or anyone could please let me know where in the web I can find information about mapping between legacy Java systems and new GWT ones?

Thank you for your help!

[Jordi P.S.]

Checkout  http://www.jseamless.org/app/  you code once, you get a lot of implementations. I'm not a big fan of the flash website but the idea it's original, even though i wouldn't use it on prod.