December 8th, 2011

GWT 2.5?

Normally the GWT team does not comment on future milestones, releases and does not provide an official roadmap (Issue 7013).

But this time, the team posted several comments on whether GWT is dead or not (mainly because of the fuss around Dart), and Ray Cromwell posted a comment providing some insight on what is [...]

May 5th, 2011

GWT-JSF – Wahl-o-Mat

Die kleine Entscheidungshilfe, bzw. die Vortragsfolien zu unserem Vortrag auf der Jax 2011.

Oder direkt hier: http://bit.ly/gwt-jsf-wahlomat

January 30th, 2011

IE 6 / 7 / 8 bad performance?

When you start developing complex enterprise applications using GWT, you can run into the problem that IE does not perform quite well with too much JavaScript.

Many companies are still stuck in – IMHO – the most successfull vendor-version lock-in web history. Ever heard this?

I cannot upgrade IE in our company because of [...]

January 30th, 2011

GWT and standards compliance

This is a sort of “standard” question when it comes down to the topic web frameworks, Java and finally the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

My first though is, what exactly is meant with “standard”?
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January 27th, 2011

Apache configuration for GWT applications [updated]

GWT applications are basically a bunch of static resources, and static resources are strong candidates for browser caching.

The GWT generated files make it quite easy to follow some of the tips for building a cache-aware site:

If a resource (especially a downloadable file) changes, change its name. That way, you can make it expire far in the future, and still guarantee that the correct version is served; the page that links to it is the only one that will need a short expiry time.

If we have a look at the generated files we will find

  • strongly unique filenames
  • cache and nocache hints in the filename

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