Thursday, March 29, 2007

Remote Procedure Calls in Google Web Toolkit

The information posted here was taken from GWT Beta developer manual, basically they say that their "services" are custom build ones: "the term service in this context isn't the same as the more general "web service" concept. In particular, GWT services are not related to the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)." The diagram of the RPC plumbing suppose to give us some idea about services functionality, but didn't gave much to me personally since I've never touched this technology.
I have downloaded GWT stuff locally and trying to get my lovely dependency telemetry within the rich, GWT based application.

2 comments:

Philip Johnson said...

As we discussed today, it would be interesting to understand how the GWT interacts with a REST-style architecture. Here's a posting that seems to indicate that it's not straightforward:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/9afb4783c3f69264/d546247c8427fb82%23d546247c8427fb82

Unknown said...

It looks like OP want to get very broad thing out of GWT, he wants to deserialize the XML into a particular kind of Java object at the client size. If we narrow our interest to png that is text itself along with some numbers it should be much easier. The main point here is that OP done this thing (REST out of GWT to his service and XML as the String back), so it is pretty doable. I'll keep it in mind.