GWT and Thrift

[Fredrik Hedberg]

Hi,

Just wanted to post a quick note about some GWT/Thrift [1] integration
code I wrote if anyone else has the same problem/requirements as I
do.

Background on the issue is available here [2], but the essense of it
is that it lets you consume Thrift services from GWT applications
(fully translated, in the browser). Not only does it allow you to
consume your existing Thrift services (of course limited by the same-
origin policy) from GWT, but also means that RPC services in new GWT
applications can be written in any language supported by Thrift (and
say host your GWT application on Google Appengine backed by a Python
RPC service) as easily as using the standard GWT RPC framework
(although I don't expect performance to be anywhere near GWT RPC yet).

Hope somebody finds it useful.


Fredrik

[1] http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/
[2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-137