Errai: The browser as a platform

Sunday, May 30, 2010

GWT, CDI and Errai at Jazoon

If you happen to be at Jazoon this year and you are interested in GWT, CDI and Errai then these sessions may be interesting to you:

Patterns and Best Practices for building large GWT applications
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 14:00-14:50, Arena 3

In this presentation we’ll see how to organize a nontrivial GWT application. We’ll go through the lessons learned in a real world project and take a look the complete development lifecycle and best practices that go beyond what GWT has to offer out-of-the-box. This talk does focus on modularity of GWT applications and how to overcome the burdens of compile-time linking. We’ll talk about client side patterns and server side implementation options and explore different approaches that allow for quick turn around times without sacrificing maintainability.

GWT, CDI and JAX-RS: A match made in heaven
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 15:00-15:50, Arena 3

Every non-trivial GWT application requires integration with the server side. While GWT itself ships with the integration capabilities (i.e GWT RPC) it doesn't go beyond that. Developers have to decide how to build the backend to their GWT applications. While freedom of choice is a good thing, it doesn’t always lead to a good decision. In this session we’ll look at two options, JSR-299 [1] and JSR-311 [2], both part of the EE6 specification and see how they interplay with GWT. We'll discuss the use cases and justifications for each technology see how they are applied in practice by looking at some code examples.

[1] JSR-299: Java Contexts and Dependency Injection for the Java EE platform (CDI) is the new Java standard for dependency injection and contextual lifecycle management.

[2] JSR-311: A that specification defines a set of Java APIs for the development of Web services built according to the Representational State Transfer[1] (REST) architectural style.



The complete schedule can be found here.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Hello, 1.1 Milestone 1!

Today, we’re pleased to announce our first step towards version 1.1, which sets us solidly on a course with 1.1 destiny.

This milestone release is a big step towards honing the concepts that we introduced in 1.0, driving someone them towards their logical conclusions, and smoothing out the rough edges. Community feedback was important to us, and we’ve worked diligently to respond to it.

This release brings a range of new features, including (but not limited to):

* Support for more servlet containers.
* New Async Task API
* A new bus monitor to make troubleshooting easier
* A new RPC API, that leverages the bus architecture, and provides an alternative to GWT-RPC.
* Better error handling.
* Better documentation.
* Bug fixes galore!

We think you should take a look. And we hope you have as much fun using it as we did building it.

Remember, Errai is always looking for community contributions. So if you’re interested in becoming a contributor, drop us a line. Download it before it gets cold.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Best Practices

Fellow JBoss core developer, and lead engineer for JBoss's security initiatives, Anil Saldhana took a deep dive into Errai in recent weeks, and he's documented some best practices here.

He offers some valuable advice worth checking out.