GWT is now up to version 1.3.3, with a 1.4RC just around the corner, and has picked up quite a following. There are now a number of working applications, and more importantly websites, blogs and other sources if information on GWT. Some of the more popular ones for me are:
- gwtPowered - a list of various different frameworks and other useful stuff
- rocket-gwt - a great component framework with lots of great UI widgets and functionality, like context menus, sliders, and replacements for some of the standard components.
- gwt-widget - another component site, but of particular interest is the GWT Server Library which allows standard Spring objects to be exposed as GWT services, without needing to explicitly tie that code in with the RemoteServiceServlet. This works by weaving code in dynamically using cglib's dynamic proxies.
- jwc-gwt-components - my GWT framework :) - this was written a while back and combines some of the features of the above toolkits. It's unique feature is that it provides widgets to integrate the TinyMCE and FCKEditor DHTML editors into GWT applications.
I still believe that it's silly to try and write a native GWT editor, especially as there are many decent editors out there that people already know how to use. Of course, they might give too much functionality, and can't necessarily be controlled as well from with GWT code.
Perhaps a refactor of JWC to focus the the GWT part of the project onto just the TinyMCE and FCKEditor support isn't such a bad idea, since most of the other parts of the framework are sown up elsewhere. Watch this space! - hopefully for less than another year!
1 comment:
Thanks a lot for the FCKEditor GWT wrapper in your toolkit. I'm new to both GWT and FCKEditor (and am planning to use both together, soon) so it's a confidence builder (and time saver) to see that someone has already built a functioning GWT wrapper for FCKEditor, and to be able to examine that code.
John
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