To continue the discussion on our use of GWT for RHQ I wanted to explain our success in directly utilizing the domain objects of RHQ in our client side code. With GWT allowing us to write our UI view code directly in Java there's even more advantage in direct access than with some of our other client technologies. We were able to reasonably easily get our domain module to GWT compile making it possible to use these objects in the generated client-side JavaScript and to serialize them between the tiers. A little bit of maven setup and we're of developing code that will run in the browser that is as direct and rich as swing development.
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