JamesXNelson

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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
Why spend cycles doing work on the shared resource (the server), when you can leverage the (hopefully) millions of CPUs used by clients? Smart clients reduce server load, and allow increased scale; why pay to make your server turn models in
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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
Threading support in gwt is still just a glorified Timer. I haven't had the time / a reason to actually implement a multi-compile to web worker to make them function correctly. If you can think of a good test project, I'd b
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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
My implementation in GWT lets you control how much is retained by using annotations to control the retention level. It even gives you the option to defer loading reflection until a future code split, such that you only download the extra b
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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
I actually have fully functioning reflection in GWT in a branch of my own, and will be getting it merged to master shortly after the GWT.create conference. https://github.com/WeTheInternet/xapi/tree/master&#x2
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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
Funny you mention docs... The new Google Sheets (y'know, that awesome spreadsheet app that lets you write javascript macros with a full in-browser debugger), is written in GWT.
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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
Note that GWT 3 will see the birth of incremental compiler plus super dev mode, which will actually be FASTER than Dev Mode. I don't know about you, but the dev-mode lag of jumping back and forth between browser and jvm actually makes
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by JamesXNelson 12y ago
If you want IDE based debugging for sourcemaps, please see http://github.com/sdbg/sdbg which is a sourcemap (super dev mode / draft compile) based eclipse plugin, for making java debugger speak chrome debugging pr