Comments on Kennard Consulting's Blog: You Can't Spell Forge Without Metawidget

Thanks Dan for your kind words. It's easy to...

2012-01-27T15:23:10.251+11:00

Thanks Dan for your kind words.

It's easy to do a nice job when the people you're working with make it so much fun!

Richard, the UI looks really nice. I saw it for th...

2012-01-27T15:16:41.838+11:00

Richard, the UI looks really nice. I saw it for the first time while giving a demo of it (yes, you heard that right, preparation is a luxury).

I immediately appreciated the smooth transition from search criteria to creating a new entity. I've never seen that workflow before (that I can remember), and yet it felt very natural. The expandable form for creating a new related entity was also a nice surprise.

I was also pleasantly surprised by the select menu fields in the search query. Typically search fields are much less helpful. I can see dropping in a RichFaces component to get autocomplete for mile long lists.

Keep up the great work! The quality of your work is being more than noticed.

Apologies. Link now fixed.

2011-12-25T09:48:59.908+11:00

Apologies. Link now fixed.

the download link doesn't work

2011-12-25T05:44:28.449+11:00

the download link doesn't work

There are a few dimensions to your answer: 1. The...

2011-12-21T09:11:25.987+11:00

There are a few dimensions to your answer:

1. The runtime GWT Metawidget, which works at runtime and does not use any static code generation: yes, it uses 'some sort of compile-time code generation to workaround the lack of runtime reflection'.

2. The static JSF generation (described in this blog): no, is purely a static solution, so it just generates normal JSF tags

3. Forge supporting GWT: not yet. Please get involved!

Regards,

Richard.

Is this implemented in a similar manner to the GWT...

2011-12-21T04:50:05.567+11:00

Is this implemented in a similar manner to the GWT integration which uses some sort of compile-time code generation to workaround the lack of runtime-reflection in GWT? Also, I'm curious if SeamForge supports GWT?