About

Since the first release of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), couple of years ago, a lot of applications have been developed in GWT and lots of bad code has been developed and hopefully, lessons were learned.

In a nutshell, the Lego Framework eases the process of making GWT applications by using intuitive concepts, proven best practices and conventions.

The Lego Framework does the following:

• 'Lego' like approach of building screens in a GWT application
• Intuitive MVC paradigm with simple concepts like Screens, Components, Events and Monitors
• Component-oriented & event driven code, resulting in high decoupling
• Embedded usage of free and open source rich widget library (SmartGWT)
• Simple to use support for internationalization

Birds-eye view of the framework:

How to start developing GWT apps using SmartMVC?

There is a sample starter project that will illustrate how the Lego Framework is used and most importantly, you can use it as a starter project onto which you will build your GWT application. It is extremely easy to switch the sample components with one of your own.

This sample starter project goes hand in hand with the Lego Framework User Guide.

After you familiarize yourself with the basic concepts from the user guide and play around with the code of the sample application, you're ready to turn it into your own GWT application in no time.

Have fun!

Feedback

The Lego Framework is an open source project. As such, you are more than welcomed to checkout the code using the Source tab.

You can post your questions, suggestions and comments to the developer group or directly to me if you prefer.