[jsr-314-open] An observation on where we should focus attention

[David Geary]

2009/12/17 Ed Burns <Ed.Burns at sun.com>

> >>>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:13:52 -0600, Jason Lee <jason at steeplesoft.com>
> said:
>
> JL> On 12/17/09 12:05 PM, David Geary wrote:
> >> I'd love to see some built-in interoperability in JSF for GWT. GWT
> >> gives you a lot of Ajax firepower (in fact, it's unrivaled, IMO) on
> >> the client, and JSF provides lots of firepower on the server.
> >> Combining the two technologies is a very attractive proposition.
> >>
> >> Grails has a GWT plug-in, and I would love to see JSF have something
> >> along those lines.
> JL> Exadel started gwt4jsf some time ago, but I think it died on the vine.
> JL> Might be a good project for $SOMEONE to pick back up:
>
> Sigh.  I had a sit down with Bruce Johnson at JAOO 2006 (the one and
> only time I went there, sadly) and we mapped out what I thought was a
> very nice integration strategy.  Nothing ever came of it, but it went
> something like this:
>
> GWT's RMI-like serverside integration is feature poor when viewed from
> the perspective of someone used to EL, DI, and JPA.  Wouldn't it be nice
> if you could just have ELExpressions in your GWT components and value
> bind them to server side objects?


It would definitely be very nice, especially if you could use ELExpressions
with GWT 2's VDL (ala UiBinder).


> In this way, you could re-use your
> POJOs and write both JSF views and GWT views to them.
>

 And a GWT renderkit could let us reuse our views too, would it not?


david


> There were some other niceties in there that I'm sure will come up if we
> start to work on this in earnest.
>
> Ed
>
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