GWT-SL 1.3-RC1 in Maven central repo

[nskmda]

Hello, all

I've finished promoting the latest release candidate of the library to
Maven central repository.
Now GWT SL v.1.3-RC1 is available via the following dependency:

<dependency>
<groupId>net.sf.gwt-widget</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-sl</artifactId>
<version>1.3-RC1</version>
</dependency>

Regards,
Dmitry

[agelos.pikoulas]

Hi to all,

I am very new to gwt-sl, just discovered it yesterday and I think it
looks great - I am particlarly interesting int the spring exposure of
services - so I will study it this summer on my holiday :-)

One quick generic question :

I see the usage of Gilead is removed in version 1.3, may I ask why ?
Gilead looks very interesting(and also stale lately). Well I am
intrigued by the idea of having my server side spring POJOs being
'alive' on the client..
Is a (better) alternative of gilead provided in gwt-sl, hence its
removed ?

Best regards

Agelos

[George Georgovassilis]

Hello Agelos,

Welcome to the SL. Gilead's concept is quite flexible and the
implementation ingenious, but there were conceptual obstacles it could
not overcome... i.e. maintaining referential integrity for lazy loaded
objects is a tough problem. GWT itself introducted the RequestFactory
which pretty much does what Gilead used to do and as you noted, things
got a little slow around Gilead also. The reason we finally removed it
is related to moving the SL to Maven which requires all binary
dependencies to be managed by Maven - which Gilead was not.

Regards,
G.

[Agelos Pikoulas]

I see, thanks for your reply.

Are there any thoughts around employment of RequestFactory with gwt-sl ?

[yes2000]

Hi nskmda:

  I had download jar from maven center, and I found it not contain client sources.

  According to GWT document, client source would be translated to javascript
 and it's source should be found in classpath.
 
  Because of in maven environment. we do not need source package,
so I suggest you to put client sources into jar in the next release.

Best Regards,

Kent