GWT using domain models /services from external module (jar) ?

Question

Greetings,

We have been using our reusable "user-management" module which was written using Spring/Hibernate(using Doman-Model Pattern).We have used that module in several project integrating with Wicket,JSP and ZK frameworks. Now I am going to develop an application using GWT.I am completely new to GWT and I noticed that the domain objects should go inside "xxx.xxxx.client" package. But I want to use our reusable module (jar) and the domain model is in completely different package. How can I use my domain-model object from this external library in GWT? How about service interfaces? Do I have to write proxies for them too?

thanks in advance

Answer 1

For your domain-model object to be used on the client side (ie: to be translated in javascript), you need to provide the sources to GWT during compile time. You also need to tell GWT in a module which package name you need to compile. See how to organize projects in GWT.

About the GWT service interfaces, I'd suggest you to integrate GWT with Spring. There is a nice tutorial about how integrating GWT with Spring. The RPC calls of GWT could be then be routed to your existing services.

Hope it helps.