[Engine-devel] Dynamic resource loading in GWT

Painful issue here - we all know the regular drill of maintaining messages in many places, I18N files and so on. Also there's a patch to make all available timezone an java enum and by that share it for free with the UI. its a way better than a backend Query. But this is all hard-coded, not flexible, hard to maintain, we all know. Why won't we make GWT load a javascript dictionary/dictionaries from a servlet or our host page html[1] using GWT Dictionary[3]? that way the configuration is shared with the engine, it relies on the disk, customers and GSS can change it on-site and so on. | index.html | -> | file servlet | -> |read /etc/ovirt-engine/conf/...| ^ | | GWT loads Dictionary | candidates for dynamic resources * I18N resources AppErrors... * config ( just the UI subset ) * osinfo ? [1] host page html - http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideOrganizingProjects.html#DevG... [2] Dynamic string internationalisation - http://www.gwtproject.org/doc/latest/DevGuideI18n.html#DevGuideDynamicStr... [3] http://www.gwtproject.org/javadoc/latest/com/google/gwt/i18n/client/Dicti... Thanks, Roy