Spring and Google WebToolkit
Posted by hatim
After some deliberation and reviewing some good pointers from Matt Raible java framework presentations, we (at work) chose to go with Spring-MVC for our ERP project. The choice was very simple, Spring 2.0 provides us with options which are very advanced and would not only help us make an application which is contemprary in design, but would also be very manageable.I know about spring from OpenNMS as they are very fond of it. I hope that after learning the ropes of spring I would be able to contribute to OpenNMS. Our first task was to make a sample Spring-Hibernate application showing i8ln and AJAX. We chose Google Web Toolkit as our view technology. Even though I was suppose to work on the testing of the system, I some how found my self doing the view part. The toughest part of GWT-Spring project is it's integration. GWT basically throws out a bunch of html and java script which is then used along with a server side portion programmed in spring. Every call is an RPC which makes things bit tricky. In short we were unable to write a simple application in 3 days just because of integration.
We will be focusing on using other view technologies like tiles, dwr etc to get our view component done. But I will definetly lookinto GWT more thoroughly at a later point.
