another GWT example – BrightPages.com

Tim — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:57:59 +0000

“We recently ported the site http://brightpages.com from Struts to GWT. As others have experienced, we had quite a ride porting to GWT framework. Being a public website, we have had to deal with issues like making the site accessible to crawlers and minimize the network traffic. We still have some UI bits rendered from server as GWT’s dynamic UI is not crawlable. But most of the interactive bits turned out good with GWT.

The other issue we dealt with is the size of the javascript output by GWT. The way we got around it using deferred binding to output different JS per page and in some cases, per use case, while using the same GWT module. This bought the size of the uncompressed JS from over 400kb to less than 27kb. I know that the JS is cached by the browser, but the delay in first-time hit was not acceptable.

We tried to switch to GWT 1.5 but the compile time was making the process prohibitive. Looking forward to the final release of 1.5 and the community feedback.”

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added “GWT in the wild” page

Tim — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:20:25 +0000

just added a new page to cover examples of where GWT is used – GWT in the wild

I’ll keep this page up to date going forward with more examples, that hopefully will help you to get sold on GWT technology. Current list includes:

a comprehensive thread on groups.google.com
Lombari Blueprint
Contact Office
Google Base
Google Health
GwtApps (it’s an awesome book on GWT)
Xscetch
Compiere (ERP + CRM)
Yesmail
Alenty
Awdio
Riflethru

GWT in the wild This is just a running list of applications using GWT...

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another GWT example – BrightPages.com

added “GWT in the wild” page