Comments on: Now that’s cool

By: tomeclipsedev

tomeclipsedev — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:24:32 +0000

I agree with you that this would be the best option but also the one with most work and as stated before I’m uncertain whether I can invest the time. It also means that one has to port all fixes, … manually which is probably going to be a maintance nightmare

By: Sakuraba

Sakuraba — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:36:26 +0000

Should you choose to implement such a qooxdoo-gwt-toolkit, I would like to ask you to strongly consider NOT using the JSNI/js-wrapper route. A much higher quality/speed can be achieved by implementing the DOM-structure that qooxdoo creates in GWT components (the way that GXT is done). In any other case it will be necessary to include the underlying js file which is what makes GWT-Ext, SmartGWT, etc so slow, because the compiler cannot optimize and shrink it, it needs to be there in its entirety up front, which is not optimal.

By: Andreas Ecker

Andreas Ecker — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:26:04 +0000

Tom, that’s perfect. We’re in Karlsruhe as well, so lets meet before or after the EADD. We’ll figure out the schedule by mail/fon.

By: tomeclipsedev

tomeclipsedev — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:01:56 +0000

I think I should clarify this a bit. I’m going to invest time to go on for sure but I can’t promise how much time I can invest without having an immediate business case behind or getting paid for it some way or another.

By: tomeclipsedev

tomeclipsedev — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:10:13 +0000

Yes I’m going to because I’m unhappy with all other toolkits until now so if we share our experience I’m happy to do so. I don’t know where you are from but I’m going to be in Karlsruhe on 7.7. for the Eclipse Developer Day. so we probably can meet in person.

By: Andreas Ecker

Andreas Ecker — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:34:41 +0000

Hi Tom, that is indeed very cool.

I just sent you an email, so maybe we can collaborate on a qooxdoo-GWT project (BTW, we’ve also created such a GWT-based proof-of-concept a while ago, even have a non-GWT solution called the qooxdoo Web Toolkit (QWT)).

By: Fabian Jakobs

Fabian Jakobs — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:18:07 +0000

That’s awesome Tom,

do you plan to build on this or is it more a (cool) tech demo? I’ve played with GWT wrappers for qooxdoo some time ago. Maybe you remember our presentation at the ESE last year. However I’ve hit some blockers, which stopped me from writing full GWT wrappers for qooxdoo. If you plan to work further on this I can share my experience.