GWT and .NET

c# asp.net gwt asp.net-ajax asp.net-3.5
Joshscorp picture Joshscorp · Jul 6, 2009 · Viewed 12.2k times · Source

How can I use GWT together with Visual Studio to create an ASP.NET website? If it is possible.

Thanks

Answer

jottos picture jottos · Jul 6, 2009

GWT can be used with any back end with a little work. Out of the box it uses a servlet container but you don't need to keep this container. The key item in the container is the script tag to load the GWT compiled code, for example:

<script language='javascript' src='com.abaqus.gwt.GeoApp.nocache.js'></script>

GWT takes it from there and is at this point independent of the back-end if you want it to be. The one are that is a source of confusion is the GWT RPC. This does not need to be used as GWT supports general JSON request support. .NET integration using JSON discussed here:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/9e1c82cd67e2f27b?hl=en

There are also projects that are tying GWT RPC to .NET see:

http://code.google.com/p/gwtrpcnet/

GWT is used pretty successfully with a number of back-ends other than Java servlets so as hassles, other than working out the details of initial setup there shouldn't be many. Even debugging in Eclipse should work (yes .NET'rs will need to use Eclipse to debug)

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