You know there is some interest from the comunity ;)

I think that should be easy to redo the old Wise GUI (wise guy?). But I have to... start!

Also GWT-Ext may be a good choice.

I've done some experiments during this week end with this framework. The old GUI design is like a seam app and is quite different from what would be done using a UI framework like GWT or GWT-Ext. The old GUI is page oriented. A GWT application is different and more like a desktop application.

"maeste" wrote:

"fdg" wrote:
Also GWT-Ext may be a good choice.

Maybe we would have problem with GPL license...

"fdg" wrote:

Another solution is YUI, that is distributed with the BSD license. There isn't any GWT-YUI integration like with ExtJS. I think it is not difficult to do (GWT JSNI and overlay type are very helpful for the integration of JS libraries within GWT applications), but it is one more thing to do.

bad quoting...

Any news about the licensing issues?

Another solution may be smartclient. It has a GWT integration and it's LGPL.

http://www.smartclient.com/
http://www.smartclient.com/smartgwt/

Our lawyers are concerned about the licensing around GWT-Ext and the behaviour of the people behind it, so we are making an effort to migrate off it.

There is a related thread in the GWT developer forum:
http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=144567

Basically GWT-Ext is LGPL until 2.0.5 but changed version afterwards.
ExtJS until 2.0.2 if i remember correctly. If you start a new project you shouldn't be using it. We already have a number of poeple working with GWT on JBoss projects, so we better join forces and come up with a solution ourselves. The current proposal is contribution to gwt mosaic. Please refer to the thread above for further details.

Actually I'm working to outline the structure of the project, create basic build files to package the webapp to be deployed and to execute it in gwt hosted mode by anyone that gets the project from the repository. To do this a requirement is to have a copy of gwt installed locally. There are different version of gwt for mac, linux and windows so the right version must be downloaded and installed. Moreover the project should be configured to find the gwt directory and target the right gwt-dev-<your-computer-os>.jar. It is not possible to put this file anywere in the project because... probably it works to build the app in web mode only, but not to run it in hosted mode.

The simpliest solution to do that is to put some instructions to download gwt in the Readme file and to require a build.properties to be created locally with the right variables defined. I don't like it very mutch. Another solution may be to use maven like the jBPM Console. But I have to admit I don't know anything about it. So, to proceed I have to choice the first one, for now.