Livegrid extension for GXT/Ext-GWT in the works

There is apparently soon going to be a livegrid implementation for GXT/Ext-GWT, similar to the one that exists for ExtJs, SmartClient/SmartGWT, and ItMill. There is already a demo and all (no source or anything else) – but worth checking out out anyway. And the announcement.

I personally have no idea whether paging is better than live grids for usability – none of the rich UI desktop systems I’ve worked on used paging (10000 or even 100000 rows is not too bad for the user if responsiveness is good and sorting/drilling is organized well), however none of the web apps I’ve developed or used had more than 200 rows per “page”.  I think the key is in the UI organization around the grid and visual responsiveness of components…

SmartGWT portal is getting ready

I’m sure by now the news of the new GWT widget framework – SmartGWT – has reached developer circles. Sanjiv has done a great job bringing out yet another great javascript framework to the java/GWT development world.

There is now also a little portal example that is getting integrated into SmartClient and SmartGWT – here is the forum post announcement and the demo after the break.

Ext-GWT 1.2 is out – drag and drop it all

oh, yeah – GXT 1.2  is out – choke full of new goodies (mostly around Drag and Drop), grid data binding, bug fixes etc. Don’t know about you, but it seems to feel a little snappier with this release, at least on the few individual examples I tried…