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RE[7]: A Loose Loose situation
by pantheraleo on Fri 6th May 2011 04:15 UTC in reply to "RE[6]: A Loose Loose situation"
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I've looked it recently. Didn't realize you could develop UIs outside of code now.

But I stll have other problems with it. It's component set is very primitive for example. Granted, there are third party add-ons to solve that, such as SmartGWT.

The other problem I have with it is that for very large projects, the compile / test cycle becomes somewhat unmanageable.

Once you have your GWT-RPC calls sorted out you generally don't restart anything. Instead you refresh the browser and the what looks to be incrementally-compiled Javascript gets loaded. So generally you just do browser page refreshes to see the latest changes you have made.

From your objections it sounds like you haven't tried GWT yet

I have tried it. And I didn't care for it much. Compile / test cycles were too long on large apps, The Eclipse plugin was unstable and buggy. And when something does go wrong in the generated Javascript, debugging it can be a nightmare from hell sometimes.


Edited 2011-05-06 04:18 UTC

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