Re: How to make my java applets more user friendly

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Date:

Sun, 13 Jul 2014 10:49:20 -0400

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On 7/13/2014 6:15 AM, Tom Adams wrote:

On Sunday, July 6, 2014 12:26:27 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

On 7/4/2014 5:55 AM, Tom Adams wrote:

I recently started looking at GWT. I find mixed info on whether it

will compile an applet (the UI classes I guess?),

It won't.

You write a GUI application in Java. GWT translates it to JavaScript
and it runs in any browser with no requirement for Java.

I am confused by this. Perhaps it's the terminology. You say it won't "compile" and applet, but it will "translate" an applet.

When I said compile, I meant compile where the target "machine code" was javascript. That's the same a translate, right?

Yes.

GWT does compile/translate to JavaScript.

But it does not compile/translate applets.

It compiles/translates Java code written in its own GUI framework.

What I want to know is that if I go to the trouble of climbing the GWT learning curve, will I just have to issue a command and end up with some javascript that will do what the applet does without needing the java plugin.

Users will not need Java installed.

Or, will I have to re-code a lot of the java code even if I am using the GWT?

The code will need to be rewritten. But I think you will find all the
concepts very familiar!

Arne