[ovirt-devel] GWT vs. Java

[Yair Zaslavsky]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Vojtech Szocs" <vszocs at redhat.com>
> To: devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Friday, October 3, 2014 4:29:15 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-devel] GWT vs. Java
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I've had a discussion with Roy about GWT vs. Java plans,
> he asked me to share this information, so here we go.
> 
> GWT 2.6
> =======
> - patch pending merge: http://gerrit.ovirt.org/#/c/32135/
> - support for Java 7 language syntax like <> operator etc.
> - once patch ^^ is merged, we can consolidate Java language
>   compliance for whole Engine -> both frontend and backend
>   can use Java 7 (yey!)
> 
> GWT 2.7
> =======
> - planned support for *only* Java 8 language syntax like
>   lambdas etc. but *without* emulating new Java 8 APIs like
>   streams etc. (Java 8 API emulation should come in GWT 3.0)
> 
> Likely, GWT 2.7 will remove GWT deRPC implementation on which
> we currently rely on. (@Martin, can you please share details?)
> 
> This means that until we move UI to REST API, we can't upgrade
> post GWT 2.6, so this will put more pressure to work on oVirtJS
> project in consequence.
> 
> GWT 3.0
> =======
> - ETA early next year?
> - planned to fully support Java 8 -> both language and APIs
> - one of key highlights is better integration with JavaScript,
>   which fits the scenario where GWT "application" is one module
>   that's part of bigger application (hybrid approach)

Thanks for sharing with us!
Can you please elabroate more on this hybrid approach?

Cheers,
Yair

> 
> Regards,
> Vojtech
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