[josm-dev] start of gwtosm the google webtoolkit port of josm

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:

> It might be a waste of time, but I am learning about gwt and josm and
> it is pretty much fun.

Actually learning coding is never wasted time. Even (or especially) 
aborted projects help to understand software and programmming better.

> It is a separate branch, and until It is running nicely, and we have
> documented the issues, I would not proposal any changes to jsom
> directly, except one : we need test cases for the classes.

We have test cases already. What we don't have is a test driven 
development. That may be a drawback, but I hardly see this anywhere in 
open source area, as it increases the initial knowledge level of wannabe 
contributions and thus reduces the number of contributors.

> Lets talk about moving the Navigatable component, and the projection
> and properties and other needed things outside of the gui framework.
> Lets talk about how to use less reflection and more virtual methods or
> other type specific dispatching.

Separating that is a long term goal for josm as well. I e.g want to have 
previews of map in editor dialogs (relations, turn restrictions, presets, 
... whatever).

This requires an easy to use map (without user interaction) and custom 
database as base for it --> the drawing core.

If your work can help with this, then I highly appreciate it, even if I 
don't think your other approach will succeed. On the other hand I never 
stop anyone from trying as it could be I'm wrong. If required server 
support at josm.openstreetmap.de will be possible as well.

Inbetween maybe we should get the applet code to work reliable, so we can 
offer it on the webpage. My task is to supply the server side of server 
side includes, other developers should help fixing remaining bugs and 
cleanups. I think 3-4 years of JOSM development have left some 
incompatibilities in applet variant.

Ciao
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