A question for the Griffon authors

I am wondering if Griffon can be used in a manner analogous to GWT to develop client-side interaction for web applications. Grails is fine for structuring the server, but seems limited when it comes to dynamic web user interfaces. Would it be straightforward to "cross-compile" Griffon source to to produce HTML/CSS/JavaScript to interact with users through a browser?

Thanks,

Gene

It is possible in theory though it is not a goal that we're looking forward at this moment, Griffon is mostly a desktop/RIA framework.
From the top of my mind you'll have to do the following to get it to work:

Make a builder that translates Swing code into HTML/Js/CSS

Find a way to translate threading code into AJAX/Cometd

I think it would be better to hack your own GWT compiler to allow Groovy to be used as an UI DSL. that task comes with its fair share of yak shaving too.

Cheers,
Andres

Andres Almiray wrote:
I think it would be better to hack your own GWT compiler to allow Groovy to be used as an UI DSL. that task comes with its fair share of yak shaving too.

Thanks for the quick reply! I understand the challenges of grafting these kinds of things together. The reason I ask is that I find Groovy/Grails really expressive for the server end, but not for building highly-interactive web apps. Hence my desire to do away with JavaScript...

Looking forward to reading your book,

Gene