gwt-mpv

gwt-mpv is an application framework for writing GWT applications. It enables you to:

• Write GWT applications with lots of really fast unit tests
• Follow a Model View Presenter (MVP*) architecture without boilerplate (10x less programmer-written LOC than hand-coded MVP)

Features

gwt-mpv has three main features:

• View generation uses ui.xml files to generate all of the view/display interface and view/UiBinder implementation boilerplate needed for fast, DOM-decoupled unit tests
• Rich models to make your application more declarative and less inner-class heavy
• Dispatch-style server/client AJAX communication

gwt-mpv does not:

• Provide extensive out-of-the-box widgets or look & feel (e.g. ExtGWT).

  The assumption is that your app will have it’s own design, likely driven from a designer’s mock up where you convert the initial static CSS/HTML into GWT’s CSS/UiBinder structure.

Community

• gwt-mpv mailing list
• todomvc ported to gwt-mpv blog post

Download

The latest release of gwt-mpv can be found in the joist maven repo:

• http://repo.joist.ws (specifically here)

For integrating gwt-mpv into your project, see getting started.

Changes

Following the gwt-mpv github project is the best way to stay in the loop on changes.

Credits

• Bizo for their initial and continued support of gwt-mpv
• gwt-pectin inspired gwt-mpv’s binding DSL, which was previously very ugly
• gwt-dispatch for the initial implementation of the dispatch pattern from Ray Ryan’s I/O talk

Foot Notes

* Yes, the project name gwt-mpv purposefully reorders the “MVP” acronym because: gwt-mvp is too generic, and the view should be the dumbest part of your app, so the “V” should come last.

Also note that Dolphin Smalltalk called it’s framework “model presenter view”.