On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:41 AM, Tatu Saloranta wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 7:11 AM, James Strachan
> <james.strachan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'd love to see something like this too - though am a bit snowed
>> for a
>> few weeks to dive in and help just yet.
>>
>> My initial thoughts were that I wondered if we could wire in the GWT
>> serialization on the server side; so we could on the client side do
>> RESTful GET/PUT/POST operations using the regular JS/Java
>> serialisation format from GWT? Failing that I was thinking of using
>> Jackson
>> http://www.cowtowncoder.com/hatchery/jackson/
>>
>> Using GWT generators we might be able to do some auto-proxy style
>> client interface (like RESTeasy does) or maybe make a Jersey
>> client-like API for use in GWT.
>
> I would also be interested, although right now I am focusing on
> polymorphic deserialization aspects for Jackson. But after that (in 2
> weeks or so) I might have more cycles. GWT is one of the things that
> would be nice interoperate with.
> I am not very familiar with GWT, but probably multiple not-so-experts
> working together could patch together something usable. :-D
>
+1
I think Jackson (or a sub-set of depending on capabilities) would be a
nice fit for GWT.
Paul.