Comments on: Use Generators to create boilerplate code in GWT 2.0

By: masch

masch — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:14:53 +0000

Hello,

First at all, thank you very much for your example, It helped me a lot. There is something that I do not understand:
Why do you have the isInstanceOf function in each FieldGenerator?
What is it the functionality?
The Eclipse IDE marked as a warning like it is never used in the project, Is it?

Thank you
masch…
salu2…

By: Siegfried Bolz

Siegfried Bolz — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:20:17 +0000

@David
I don’t think so, in my example i am using annotations to reduce the code. I have created other Annotations to simplify Field-Security and to add Handlers/Listeners on the same way. An other option is to use the Builder-Pattern if you have selfmade Widgets. Ok it looks like the old way to code Servlets, but it is working very fine.

By: Siegfried Bolz

Siegfried Bolz — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:13:28 +0000

@Venkatesh Sellappa
I am using GXT which is currently not working with the UIBinder. To reduce the amount of code i am using this special Generators.

By: Venkatesh Sellappa

Venkatesh Sellappa — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:02:51 +0000

Any specific reason you don’t want to use UIBinder for the same thing ?

By: David

David — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:11:46 +0000

Ugly bugly!
You want to have either factories producing your customized components pre configured, or just extended classes where the configuration is done in the constructor. Specifying attributes in an annotation is just messy, it’s worse than setting them directly.

By: J.F. Zarama

J.F. Zarama — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 23:13:25 +0000

I read with interest your blog re GWT generators.

The Introduction provides a good contrast of the potential benefit and streamlining.

However, the included example is long and I got lost; I see much code, several classes; I look forward to future posts that will help me better understand GWT 2.0

Thanks for the blog entry on a subject I am trying to understand; thanks;