#GWTcon2017 - Discussion Topics & beforehand questions for speakers


  • Would you like to propose questions for the speakers at GWTcon2017?
  • Do you want to suggest topics of discussion about GWT ? 
  • You're going to miss GWTcon2017 :-(  but do you have a lot of questions?

then this is the right place for you!


Leave questions for speakers, for the steering committee members and for the rest of community.


The top rated once will be proposed during GWTcon2017.


+3

GWT Documentation at gwtproject.org needs a better structure and rework

Dr. Lofi Dewanto 7 years ago updated by Ahmad Bawaneh 7 years ago 1

Working often with GWT beginners I found out that the documentation page at http://www.gwtproject.org offers no good structure. The first thing is that you find a lot of old docs which are not up-to-date anymore.


Actually GWT documentation just need to take a look at Spring Framework documentation which has a great doc, also for beginners. This is an example of Spring Boot doc: http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot


The look&feel of the pages is very nice but the contents and structures need a rework.

+2

Better debugging experience

saso petrovic 7 years ago updated by Ahmad Bawaneh 7 years ago 2

Will the debugging experience ever get any better? Can it get any better? 

I'm talking about "guessing" variable names, evaluating expressions, ...


+2

GWT/Angular/React Switch or not ?

Vincent 7 years ago updated by Ahmad Bawaneh 7 years ago 2

Does the price/curve of learning JS+Angular is higher than the price of waiting Elemental2 GA release ?

+1

GWT Plugin, the importance of the development environment and the "New GWT Application Project"

Diogo Alexandre 7 years ago updated by Dr. Lofi Dewanto 7 years ago 5

The GWT Plugin has a very important role on keeping GWT alive and getting new developers to quick and easily start developing on it.


Having developed in GWT in several projects, but also having to use other alternative technologies in several other projects, it is important for me to push for it. I truly find GWT better, easier and more powerful than other alternatives. However, it is hard to convince other developers in a team to try it and see for themselves the benefits of GWT, mainly because it is not that popular and one needs to try it.


The easiness of creating a new GWT application with sample code (with Ant, or with Maven - great job on that!), including a simple client-server, testing and UI examples (for now UiBinder) is the key to get GWT further. No matter how different GWT will be in this new version (e.g. will UiBinder and GWT-RPC be something different?), if the Eclipse GWT Plugin shows all its benefits with a couple of clicks, then developers will actually try it out - hopefully newcomers too! Short but complete documentation, examples and tutorials are also essential. That is actually more important for the future of GWT than the technical details behind it.

+1

Will GWTTestCase support SDM debuging?

saso petrovic 7 years ago updated by Ahmad Bawaneh 7 years ago 1

GWTTestCase (was) is a nice way for writting tests and debuging. 

But with SDM there are no Source Maps and break points don't work, so when the test fail it's really a pain to debug.

0

Is GWT3/J2CL === JSweet ?

Tr@X-> 7 years ago updated by Dr. Lofi Dewanto 7 years ago 4

JSweet - http://www.jsweet.org/faq/ - is Java to Typescript/Javascript transpiler similar in concepts to GWT3/J2CL. Some may say it's already an implementation of GWT3 / J2CL.


Would be interested you have your opinion on JSweet versus GWT3/J2CL?

How will you sell GWT3 to JSweet users?

Regards


T@nguy