Re: Integrating Spiffy UI into GWT

[Tom Carchrae]

On Sunday, 11 August 2013 11:12:46 UTC-7, Rafiq Ahamed wrote:

Dear folks,

     I have been a heavy GWT user for the past 4 years in a number of projects. I have used M-GWT and it is great as well. Even though, I like GWT/M-GWT, I dislike the usage of GWT RPC's. RESTFUL webservices integration is the way to go so that the server side can be anything including JSON style NoSQL databases such as Apache Solr or Apache CouchDB. In this context, I like SpiffyUI a lot. I think it would be a big mistake if we do not take the good things from SpiffyUI into GWT. Any thoughts?

What things do you mean?  Can you be more specific than RESTFUL webservice integration - which, btw, you can do with GWT already with RequestBuilder.   

I have a great respect for the Spiffy UI team - Zack and Bess have written some awesome articles that truly inspired me in working with GWT:  http://www.zackgrossbart.com/hackito/antiptrn-gwt2/  These days, I don't use any GWT RPC and I don't even have any GWT widgets, but GWT is fantastic as a tool - or as Zack says, the 'glue'.  

As I understand it, one of the big pushes for GWT 3.x is modularity - so we want less stuff in the core, and more libraries that can be used.  So, what is needed for GWT to better support 'modules' like SpiffyUI?

Tom