DWT - Take off and Problems Galore

eduzine@edujinionline.com (Eduzine) — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:28:12 -0700

The DWT project commenced about a fortnight back and soon hit some roadblocks.

Firstly, the Ajax communication to the server in Google Web Toolkit is asynchronous and as such retrieving the templates in template based widgets was an issue. For which the team wrote a quick-fix to query the server synchronously. A function getText was added to com.edujinilabs.dwt.client.dojo.Dojo class (see the code here).

Ok... that was an easy go. But then, we had the real fun!

Template-based Widgets rely on dynamically created properties (JavaScript is, after all, dynamically typed language). However, the first problem is that Java is statically typed; secondly, GWT changes the field/function names upon recompilation, and finally - Java does not support function references.

A detailed problem description and proposed solution has been put up on the DWT Blog.

Have you got some suggestions or inputs? Do write in...

Dojo on Google Web Toolkit

eduzine@edujinionline.com (Eduzine) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:15:00 -0700

This is the updated version of the announcement - the License has been changed to New BSD

To take the development experience with Dojo Toolkit on to the next level using Google Web Toolkit, Edujini Labs plans to port Dojo Toolkit for GWT.

The project would soon be hosted at SourceForge under both ~~GPL v2/3~~ New BSD and commercial license. We have sought for the project name "DWT" (applied under APT process, and may take 2-3 weeks for complete takeover).

The project would be led by Gaurav Vaish, initially supported by core team comprising of

Abdul Prodhani
Hair S Nair
Shake Sajan

To get started, a quick proof-of-concept demo has been created. It's not a very clean implementation - just a get started stuff.

The video for the demo is available can be downloaded here.

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DWT - Take off and Problems Galore

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