While working with GWT and GXT, it occurred to me that there was no equivalent in either to Swing’s Action architecture… So I set myself to implement an equivalent functionality in GXT. The Swing legacy In a word, the action architecture is an implementation of the Command design pattern, with the Action class being an
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WebDriver: automated web UI testing
Automating UI testing is not a trivial task, yet it is highly desirable as part of a complete non-regression test suite, which is (as everyone knows by now) a must-have for any project claiming to be agile. This is how I came across WebDriver while looking for ways to automate testing a GXT-generated frontend. While
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GXT: tooltips on individual TreeItems
In the series: “how to lose time by fixing GXT stuff that should work but doesn’t“, today we address tooltips on individual TreeItems. If you ever tried to set a tooltip on a TreeItem and got frustrated because it didn’t work, you might find this post interesting: http://extjs.net/forum/showthread.php?p=329305#post329305 As usual, a lot of time is
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Why Ext-GWT MVC is broken
Introducing Ext-GWT Our current project is a GWT project, and we’re using Ext-GWT as a widget library and framework. Ext-GWT (formerly MyGWT) is a “pure” Java/GWT port of the well known Ext-JS JavaScript library, not to be mistaken for gwt-ext, which is a Java/GWT wrapper around Ext-JS… Still following? In short, gwt-ext requires Ext-JS, while
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