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E. Rowlands
E. Rowlands

Reputation: 343

GWT Basic Architecture

I am new to client-server application development (only experience with Java desktop).

My query is this: I have followed an excellent GWT tutorial on YouTube and understand basic OO principles being applied to client and server services and implementations. However, what if a class isn't a service - say a data class like Person storing basic information that will be used by the service classes. Where should I store these separate classes?

To give you an insight in to my current structure (using Client package hierarchy).

I have: com.me.example.client - then client.GUI & client.service packages contained here.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 174

Answers (1)

Knarf
Knarf

Reputation: 2156

You can choose between

  • Just setting these in client.
  • Create an extra package besides client and server : shared

When choosing for a seperate shared package you must add the following line to your gwt.xml

<source path='shared'/>

Extra info : these classes are needed at the client side, and thus need to be compiled to javascript by the gwt compiler. When putting them in client this is already the case (because client is already configured in .gwt.xml). When putting them in shared, you must tell so to the gwt compiler.

Upvotes: 1

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