We have a GWT application that needs to display various holidays. Is there a library available to do these calendrical calculations? If not, we'll have to do our own that we can ingest a set of rules to.
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A:
An alternative approach might be to grap some calendars off the web, such as those at
I have no connection with the site, and am not making any recommendation about the quality or comprehensivity of their calendars.
Oh, and you have Googled for calendrical calculations haven't you ? To find the source ...
High Performance Mark
2010-06-02 17:11:40
Google? What is this Google you speak of :-P I did a brief search for GWT specific (since GWT can't use Java's Calendar class and only uses Date) but didn't come up with anything. I should look for the calcs directly though.
Kyle Hayes
2010-06-02 17:17:01
I took a look at that site and doesn't really provide what we need.
Kyle Hayes
2010-06-02 17:19:23
A:
com.google.gwt.user.datepicker.client.CalendarUtil has a few methods that could be useful.
JP already mentioned Goda time. I haven't used Goda, but Joda time is generally a great API. Additionally, there are a few other libraries:
Chris Lercher
2010-06-02 21:35:22
BTW, I'd really like to find out myself, which of the libraries has the most promising future: http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/thread/941a5c09f366d9de#
Chris Lercher
2010-06-02 21:37:59