>>>>> On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:13:52 -0600, Jason Lee <jason@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.