To GWT Roo or not to GWT Roo, especially when more complex than basic CRUD?

[dserodio]

Too bad that the addons — which seem to be one of the most compelling features of Spring Roo — are currently broken and no one at SpringSource seems to care: https://jira.springsource.org/browse/ROO-3184

[Jev]

Who is the owner/maintainer of the GWT support in Roo?

What's the status of support for the upcoming GWT 2.5 release?
Has anyone tried using GWT 2.5 RC1 with the latest Roo release?

Following the last Google I/O event, people at Google, in particular Ray Cromwell (https://plus.google.com/u/0/110412141990454266397/posts) have been reassuring the community that GWT has plenty of life in it. Google continue to use GWT for new internal projects. The new 2.5 release has some very nice new features, and excellent code optimization improvements. It also now supports the Closure Javascript Compiler, and JSR-303 Validation support.

In addition to all of that, GWT is changing it's stewardship to a public Steering Committee, of which Google is still a part of. This to me is a good thing. Google are also currently hiring developers for their GWT team.

Based on all of that, I'm rather interested in using GWT with my Roo project.

[arakhshan]

I have been developing an application using roo + gwt for quite sometime and I comprehend the code inside/out. There is no magic and I have to say the generated gwt code is beautifully crafted. The perfect implementation of RequestFacotry, editors, UiBinder, Places are all built in. There is a learning curve but if you're familiar with Java and you have a big project with scalability and performance to be the focus then I wouldn't look anywhere else.

You can easily get your answers from GWT forum and STS. If something new, I have to say GWT forum is back to be very active lately but unfortunately here STS seems to be making no more effort on GWT part. The majority of the updates I have noticed in the past two years have been on Groovy/ Grails. This is very unfortunate since there is a good demand for GWT and the current roo-gwt integration is already in a decent state. It seems that making minor upgrades/tweaks and extending the current sts add-ons to gwt (like reporting) would keep everybody happy but it hasn't been happening here.

I am writing this post as my application stopped compiling since yesterday for no good reason which appears to be AspectJ problem, frustrated as I can't seem to figure it out but still, if I were to do it all over again, I would choose Roo + GWT

[delgad9]

@Guys,

I took some time but better later than never...

Finally there is official attention into the jQuery-Web MVC integration.

I just found it http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/29/integrating-spring-mvc-with-jquery-for-validation-rules/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+SpringSourceTeamBlog+%28SpringSource_Tea m_Blog%29

This is the new RIA standard for successful Java Web Enterprise... Everything else is validated legacy now.

For the Historians, everything started with http://pragmatikroo.blogspot.com/201...ve-jquery.html

B. and so validated Roogards
jD @ http://pragmatikroo.blogspot.com/201...-datatype.html

[Jev]

@Guys,

I took some time but better later than never...

Finally there is official attention into the jQuery-Web MVC integration.

I just found it http://blog.springsource.org/2012/08/29/integrating-spring-mvc-with-jquery-for-validation-rules/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+SpringSourceTeamBlog+%28SpringSource_Tea m_Blog%29
.....

delgad9, Although Spring MVC & JQuery integration is very interesting in and of itself, your post just seems off topic, and does not talk to the actual questions being asked in this thread.

[delgad9]

delgad9, Although Spring MVC & JQuery integration is very interesting in and of itself, your post just seems off topic, and does not talk to the actual questions being asked in this thread.

@Jev

Well...

I am talking Roo stuff in the Spring Roo forum. I think I am ok.
If someone would like to talk about collateral stuff only; they can go to the collateral stuff only forum. I guess.

The fact that now jQuery & Spring MVC integration is on the official Spring Source Team radar many things will unfold very quickly in the Java Web RIA arena.

Thank you and B. Roogards
jD @ http://pragmatikroo.blogspot.com

[arakhshan]

I have filed an abuse report with the site admin for the user "delgad9" so they can review his posts. I am surprised as he is recognized as "senior" member. If you notice he immediately tops the response with an irrelevant post which mainly links to his /her own website !
Please do raise the flag to the admin, we depend on honest community and not biased responses.

Thanks

[delgad9]

@arakhshan,

What are you talking about?. It is crazy, I am referring to Spring source article in the post...
I think you are totally wrong on this one. Irrelevant? I just got a thank you note from a developer colleague few posts below.
Here it is the link http://forum.springsource.org/showth...-Two-databases Thanking me because one of my irrelevancies help him/her in him/her work.

Mr. Mrs. It arakhshan, show your contributions to the Spring Roo community to show you deseve to stay on it.

Thank you
B. and anti-dictatorial mindset Roogards
jD

[dserodio]

jD is very helpful on this forum, his answers are useful and not "irrelevant". There's nothing wrong with him linking to his blog where he showcases cool things built with Roo; it's not like he's selling "cheap Rolex replicas" or anything...

[delgad9]

jD is very helpful on this forum, his answers are useful and not "irrelevant". There's nothing wrong with him linking to his blog where he showcases cool things built with Roo; it's not like he's selling "cheap Rolex replicas" or anything...

@dserodio,
Legal!

Obrigado
jD