Recomended GWT Frameworks for single page application

Question

After google around, I have to ask this question on StackOverflow.

There are frameworks around, but most of them are from 2008 2009, unmaintained, multipage or will not work with GWT 2.0

What are the recommended framework should I use for a single page application that will scale most in term of deploy? 1 language is a plus point because GWT is all about 1 language, beside if we tune the server to run Java and serve HTML pages, it will be faster.

But any framework that works and good is okay also.

Thanks :)

Answer 1

I recommend watching this from last year's Google IO. They recommended using the Model-View-Presenter pattern for GWT apps. Here is one implementation of this pattern. The following from this year's GoogleIO might also be helpful:

• http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/architecting-performance-gwt.html
• http://code.google.com/events/io/2010/sessions/architecting-production-gwt.html

I should also mention that GWT is a framework in and of itself. The above are more best practices on how to use the framework.

Answer 2

In addition to Jay Askren's suggestions, another good framework is gwt-platform, which is a combination of two other good frameworks, gwt-presenter and gwt-dispatch.

Answer 3

I think it's also important to note that GWT 2.1 will include a lot of application framework pieces. From what I've seen so far on the contributor mailing list, it should include:

• MVP framework
• EventBus integration
• PlaceManager for navigation
• Data presentation widgets (i.e. data binding)
• Validation hooks? (JSR-303 annotations recently committed)

So make sure to check out vanilla GWT 2.1 M2 as well.

Answer 4

Have you looked at EXT-GWT (GXT)? It's a single page framework.

http://www.sencha.com/products/gwt/