Livegrid extension for GXT/Ext-GWT in the works
There is apparently soon going to be a livegrid implementation for GXT/Ext-GWT, similar to the one that exists for ExtJs, SmartClient/SmartGWT, and ItMill. There is already a demo and all (no source or anything else) – but worth checking out out anyway. And the announcement.
I personally have no idea whether paging is better than live grids for usability – none of the rich UI desktop systems I’ve worked on used paging (10000 or even 100000 rows is not too bad for the user if responsiveness is good and sorting/drilling is organized well), however none of the web apps I’ve developed or used had more than 200 rows per “page”. I think the key is in the UI organization around the grid and visual responsiveness of components…
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Dislaimer: self-promotion.
You might want to have a look at the LiveTable we are going to release soon. It is a client-server system: the presentation is built with GWT while the server is based on java and provides sorting/grouping/filtering functionality. The table is pretty powerful: it features multi-level grouping on both columns and rows, filters based on math expressions, export in CSV and MDB format, and a lot more.
Feel free to play with the demo and to send me your feedbacks (antonio.leonforte at fhoster.com), they will be much appreciated.
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