Re: [xwiki-devs] upgrade to gwt 1.4

Hi everybody, Jerome suggested yesterday that we could handle the upgrade as follows: - use MyGWT widgets library for the web-gwt functionalities (modal dialog boxes) since it is a pure java library and its usage only involves changes in the web-gwt code - if needed, gwt-ext could be used for particular projects using web-gwt api and each project's code could be changed accordingly (this would be the case for watch). Both libraries seem pretty reliable, with active developers and nice community, so, from this point of view, they are both superior to gwttk that we currently use. Here's my +1 for this approach. WDYT? > Hi all, > > we want to upgrade XWiki Web gwt to gwt 1.4 for the 1.3 version so, > since > gwttk does not have a version for gwt 1.4 and we depend on it for > creating > modal dialogs, we need to replace tk with something else. A good option > is > gwt-ext, which also can replace gwt-widgets and provides some more nice > ui > objects and client functionality (like date parsing -- which we get > from > gwt-widgets for the moment). > The trouble with gwt-ext is that it requires ext javascript library to > run, which means that any gwt application needs to import, besides the > gwt.js file, some ext javascript files. Since the modal dialogs are > defined in the web-gwt module (so our gwt-ext dependency is there) and > we > cannot import the ext javascript files at that level, the only solution > is > to rely on the application using web-gwt to include right all required > files. It doesn't seem to me as good practice but I cannot figure out > how > big of an issue it is (since that application already has some rules to > obey, js files to include, etc to have gwt working). > > WDYT? > > >