The thirft-gwt project provides a GWT library and a Thrift compiler patch to allow GWT applications to interoperate with Thrift.

Download thrift-gwt

You can find the latest patched Thrift compiler and GWT library at:

• Thrift 0.7.0 compiler patched with GWT generator
• Thrift library for GWT

The latest release is rev2 (still very early work...), released November 2, 2011.

Start using thrift-gwt

1. Generate Thrift classes using the compiler: thrift.exe -gen gwt MyDefinitionFile.thrift
2. Import the Thrift module in your GWT module: <inherits name="org.apache.thrift.Thrift"/>

That's it, you're done!

You can have a look at the Tutorial GWT project to see thrift-gwt in action: * Using the Thrift client * Exposing a Thrift service as a Servlet

Useful information

• The library is known to work with GWT 2.4. It may or may not work with older versions of GWT.
• On the client side, you way want to use TNativeJSONProtocol instead of TJSONProtocol. It uses eval() to speed up deserialization, and is much faster.

This projects mainly aims at providing a Thrift client for GWT. However, the GWT generator still creates service Processor interfaces and the TServlet class is still included in the library. This allows for a simple solution to the basic GWT Client / Java Server use case.

Limitations

• JSONProtocol is the only supported protocol.
• No support for binary type.