Beeing able to generate files on the client is a common requirement and a usefull feature for a webapplication .
In one of our applications for example we have users generating reports every 30-45 seconds. By beeing able to do that on the client we do not need to scale our servers when the number of users grows.
Gwt4Air (http://code.google.com/p/gwt4air/) introduced in version 2.1 a File API that uses Flex and let u create files(PDF , Excel, Text, PNG, JPEG...) on the client by adding a Flex widget into your GWT application. The problem with that approach is that you needed to load an entire instance of the Flex framework just to be able to read/write files on the client
Gwt4air 2.2 will introcude a more lightweigt solution that does not require Flex(Flash is still needed dough). Please take a minute to visit:
I have changed the demo to demonstrate exporting a GXT(2.XXX) chart to a PNG image.
Exporting to others formats(PDF, JPEG, etc.. ) will also be possible
cheers,
Not that i m aware of. But i heard that the guyz are working(I m not the owner of the project anymore) on the next version of the library.
So stay tuned
Clientside file generation with GWT(GXT)
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