Page flows in GWT

[klr8]

Hello,

Would somebody of the GWT community be interested in trying to
implement the Page Flow Challenge in GWT? You can find more details in
the following blog post:

http://ev9d9.blogspot.com/2009/11/page-flow-challenge.html

I'd love to get a GWT entry posted or learn about how something like
this would be accomplished in GWT.

Thanks in advance!

Erwin

[Thomas Broyer]

You don't need any "page" actually (though you might *want* pages),
and your challenge doesn't talk about "bookmarkability" (well, because
you say it should use HTTP POST, I believe you're "modifying a
resource's state" and therefore the URL for, e.g., "page 2" is the
same whichever the value you entered in "page 1"; ...and now that I
looked at your swf1's sample, it seems this really is the case: the
URL doesn't change between "pages").

This leads me to say that your "challenge" is completely "not web-
style", it reminds me of JSF (don't ask me what I think of it, I can
become angry quite quickly).

Instead of focusing on "page flows" (why are there so many frameworks
doing such a shitty thing?), (learn REST if needed and then:) focus on
resources and their states, moving application state to the client
(and therefore building a stateless server, where you don't even need
"sessions"), etc.