Personally, I find Javascript infuriating: the lack of consistency; its confusion between being a functional language, an object-oriented one, or neither; and the impossible-to-understand treatment of `this` in most contexts, make it a real pain to use. I have recently started a project that required my using it, and even with the help of jQuery … More Dart – replacing Javascript
In a recent post, I’ve demonstrated how one can use the same domain-specific (Model) classes end-to-end, from the Mobile layer, to the GWT Front-End, up to server-side and Persistence layer (JPA). Recently, I’ve done a serious refactoring of my Android Receipts mobile app, using java.net.URIs to keep track of the receipts’ images location in the … More Using the same model classes in Android, GWT and JPA (Part II)
This is really a trivial how-to, but wanted to try out how easy it was to capture Eclipse’s window using xvidcap, and then upload to Youtube and embed the video here. This was all relatively simple (from having the idea, to blog posted and tested, took around 15 minutes) so I plan to do a … More Change a GWT Module name
The available documentation from http://code.google.com/gwt and other blogs I’ve researched, is pretty scant on detail about creating and re-using your own GWT module, so I’ve decided to draft here a few guidelines, highlighting the most likely pitfalls along the path. The following assumes you already have a certain familiarity with GWT, the use of Eclipse … More Writing a GWT Module
For the past several months, I have been looking for ways to integrate GWT and Spring in a way that is not as painful as it appeared to be at first. Certainly, the new /war deployment structure of GWT 1.6 is a massive stride forward, especially for those who, like me, think that Tomcat is … More GWT, Spring and JPA – not really friendly to each other
