guys!
I am very interested with ext gwt. Do you know any darg and drop designers for this framework?
Does ext gwt work with ext designer?
Thanks
No, Ext GWT won't work with Ext Designer. It will, however, work with GWT Designer in Eclipse.
Instructions:
http://code.google.com/intl/en-US/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/features/gwt/gxt.html
Some people had problems with that one, in that case you might find a workaround here:
How to configure Ext GWT with GWT Designer?
And the last word from me: I haven't used that, working with GXT components the old fashioned way isn't a big pain, too.
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Is there anyone who knows an alternative for the GWT Designer in Eclipse or maybe a good workflow to design UI’s?
The GWT Designer is no longer supported, since GWT version 2.7.
Thanks a lot!
For Native GWT there is nothing.
For GWT from other vendors
Vaadin -> https://vaadin.com/designer
GXT -> Nothing
I'm trying to work with GXT 3 widgets in the GWT designer, without success.
I successfully managed to use GXT 2.2 with the designer but when switched to GXT 3, it seems that resources and images are missing. this seems odd because there are no folders for resources and images in GXT 3. What's going on here?
I am using GXT 3.0 GPL and Eclipse Indigo 3.7
Check this related forum question: GWT Designer suport for GXT 3.0?
IMHO - It is very easy for Sencha to make money tweaking code a little bit to produce a next release and charge users for upgrade. Creating complex UI designer plug in for Ecliple / netbeans is not an easy money.
Overall: They are greedy and short-sighted.
Unfortunately, GXT team do not consider to support GWT designer for GXT 3.0. Google GWT Designer team also do not have any intention to support GXT 3.0 .. WYSWYG editor is just illusion for GXT 3.0 .. http://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?170585-GWT-Designer-suport-for-GXT-3.0
GXT 3 is not compatible with the Google plugin For Eclipse, thus you won't be able to use the GWT Designer to manipulate GXT 3 widgets.
The Google plugin and GWT Designer are compatible only with GXT 2.2 and currently there are not active projects designated to provide support for GXT3, due to the GPE becoming an open-source. This is, in my opinion, a job for the sencha community.
I have my first GWT project that I created using UiBinder (GWT 2.0 way) which I found to be easier than write my UI creation Java source code (GWT 1.0 way).
But I saw this thing called GWT Designer that Google are releasing for free. It has nice features and wizards which were missing with the standard Google Eclipse Plugin. I like it, but I still think that using UiBinder is better. I think GWT Designer will be really useful when it can help you write UiBinder XML files (GWT 2.0 way), and not just source code (GWT 1.0 way).
What do you think about it?
Do I need to migrate to GWT Designer project?
Will it be better if I migrate but still keep UiBinder UI creation?
The latest GWT Designer now has support for UiBinder, and it works great.
http://download.instantiations.com/D2GWTDoc/continuous/latest/docs/html/wizards/gwt/uibinder_composite.html
UiBinder can give you better performance and a better optimized download than traditional widget construction; to me that's enough of a reason to stick with UiBinder. If your app is light and fast enough as it is then the choice probably comes down to what style of development suits you best.
I wouldn't go as far as to port your existing UiBinder templates into the designer. Google will be adding support for them to GWT designer soon enough.
I haven't used the newly-freed GWT Designer yet myself, but I wouldn't expect that it would warrant migrating your entire project over to it if it's already written using UIBinder.
Remember that the two methods of constructing a UI are not mutually exclusive -- you can use the GWT Designer to create a new widget and use it in an existing UIBinder project, and if you decide it's that much better, you can consider migrating at that point. Or not, since they can still happily coexist.
If you are doing professional development in an organization that utilizes experts in CSS and html, then GWt is going to be a tough sell if you don't use something like UIBinder for layouting as well as individual pages. I also think that a CSS designer can do a better job at responding to UI requirement changes than a java developer using GWT layouting techniques.
However if your java staff has control of the requirements and don't have to answer to UI designers, then I suppose choosing between delcarative templates and something like GWT Designer is just a matter preference.
As said in the relaunch announcement:
Now that these products are available again, we hope you’ll start using them within your GWT projects. Meanwhile, our next step is to more deeply unify them into the GWT family of tools by blending the fantastic Instantiations technology into the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE). So, there’s much more to come, including things we’re pretty sure you’ll like, such as UiBinder support in GWT Designer.
It wouldn't make sense to get ride of your UiBinder code since GWT Designer will support it soon.
DON'T use the designer plugin. The most recent update (8.1.1 at the time of this post) contains buttons that allow the user to add elements that are incompatible with IE, for instance CellTable, DeckPanel, HorizontalPanel and VerticalPanel.
This means whoever uses the plugin, uses it entirely at their peril. If IE7 tries to pull in these elements, it will load a partial page but fail to load components that use these elements. IE8 may not be able to load the application at all.
is there a difference between Ext GWT and GWT-Ext? Cos i was surfing Ext GWT and saw this page http://gwt-ext.com/demo/. any help guys?
ExtGWT is marketed and maintained by the same guys who developed ExtJs library. ExtGWT shares its look and feel and API structure with ExtJS. Contrary to popular perception, ExtGWT is not a wrapper around ExtJS javascript, but written ground up using GWT DOM and other low level GWT API's. It is 99% java based and uses no (or very little) JSNI to get things done. It also supports data binding. This library is actively supported and also has a paid commercial version.
On the other hand GWT Ext was developed by Sanjeev Jeevan as a wrapper around LGPL version (no support now) of ExtJS. So the library is a very shallow wrapper around ExtJS javascript and uses JSNI extensively. This can create problems, particularly if you need to debug the library. GWT Ext does not enjoy the same level of community support as ExtGWT and also the original author has long since moved on to a different project. Read about the reasons here.
If you have to choose between the two, and plain old GWT is not an option, choose ExtGWT. Keep in mind that it is GNU GPL licensed.
Neither. You'll have nothing, but problems with third-party GWT widget libraries. I've wasted four years on significantly more refined and mature SmartGWT and finally gave up.
Styling standard GWT components that wrap native browser controls is easy. You should strive for native portable control set and you'll rarely need anything more for a modern minimalistic mobile-friendly UX. However if you still crave some third-party widgets, look at GWT-Bootstrap3: https://github.com/gwtbootstrap3/gwtbootstrap3
Are there any good themes or component libraries for GWT? The built-in themes are rather plain for my purposes. I've seen gwt-ext and smartgwt, but those aren't that great looking. Are there any others that have a real nice look? I know of vaadin an I really really like the look, but from what I understand that just an entirely new framework.
The first thing to be careful of is that there are two frameworks which use EXT and GWT:
GWT-Ext
Ext GWT
Both are based on the Ext JS component library.
Gwt-Ext is based on an old version of Ext JS when it was still LGPL but is no longer developed.
Ext GWT is from the same company who are still developing Ext JS. It's still being developed and is available under free and commercial licenses, and of the two is the one I would use.
SmartGWT is an alternative (and is what the GWT-Ext people are moving to). A colleague of mine looked at it and did not like it as much as Ext GWT as it's a fairly thin wrapper around the SmartClient JavaScript whereas Ext GWT has quite a lot of Java code. The difference being that if you run an Ext GWT application in Hosted Mode and attach your debugger you can see what Ext GWT is doing, but with SmartGWT you'll just see lots of IDispatch calls where it disappears into native JavaScript where your debugger won't be able to follow.
There are some themes developed for EXT GWT that can be found at:
Olive Theme: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15505
Dark Grey Theme: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15341
Purple Theme: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15377
Black Theme: http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=15504
In order to use these themes you will also need to use the EXT GWT widgets instead of the ones supplied with the GWT library.
I am also currently evaluating ExtGWT: at least with the new 2.0 release, that just came out today, it is not relying on the ExtJS library but is almost completely written in GWT, which is a nice thing. Exceptions are the chart widgets, wrapping the open flash charts library, that rely on additional javascript (plus flash obviously).
Try Extjs GWT basically is the same framework of ext-gwt but in another approach.
Searching in google in found another:
http://gwt.components.googlepages.com/
http://advanced-gwt.sourceforge.net/
http://www.gwtsite.com/top-5-gwt-libraries/
For me Extjs GWT is the best you can find, and is developed by an foundation, this means you have support.