Re: [xwt-users] xvt and jikes and shoehorn

Hi. I am a relative newbie myself. I can answer a lot of these.

See below.

-Jeff

Jeff Buhrt
Achievement Focused Technology, Inc.
[email protected]
http://aftinc.net

Nazario Irizarry wrote:

> I spent the last few days playing with XVT to see if it was of 
> potential use on a project I am working on.  I like what you guys are 
> doing and hope you guys can keep going.  A few questions:
>
> - Where is the source for shoehorn?

No clue. I assume also in CVS.

>
> - You seem to be working hard to implement native XVT but I think a 
> true applet based XVT would be great for many "real-world" 
> applications.  Even if the applet was limited to RPC to the source 
> host that would be ok.  Many times the reason to use applets on an 
> intranet is that the organization does not want to download things 
> into peoples desktops.  In fact the project I am working on only wants 
> servlets - hence i have been looking for thin servlet technology.

The idea is nothing has to be INSTALLED. The shoehorn checks the local 
cache for a copy though.
Note that this method also makes it browser independent. You *can* run 
off a network 'drive' if you would like though... (see later).

>
> - I tried a make and discovered the attempt to build and use jikes 
> when all i wanted was the xvt.jar  (make JVM).  Why not use javac?

I had someone helping me review XWT initially, he got hung up compiling 
at first. The idea is to *not* change the compiled code. That is why 
there are widgets vs built-in compiled functions, etc..

>
> - It would be helpful for debug and development to be able to include 
> multiple .xwar files so that a target app could build on "standard" 
> widgets.  Also would be cool to be able to not have to package things 
> up in a .xwar at all when running locally, ie, leave the .xwt template 
> files under development in a directory and pass the directory in 
> instead of the .xwar.
>
You can.
For development using a directory vs xwar see 
http://www.xwt.org/reference.html, Appendix E.
As for runtime you will be able to use multiple cached xwars AND the 
discussion is that even single files on a website would be allowed.

> BTW I like the whole trap on read and trap on write concept. Very cool.
>
> Naz Irizarry
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