Non HTML Container Implementations

[Ryan J Baxter <rj...@us.ibm.com>]

Does anyone know of, or has anyone implemented a container that is not 
written in HTML?  Some of my team's use cases would require us to have a 
container that is implemented in SWT.  As I look at more and more 
containers I am noticing there is some container <-> gadget communication 
that happens.  For example gadgets.window.setTitle.  If my container is 
some type of SWT component than this makes things a little difficult, at 
least in my eyes.  Imagine for example you have an Eclipse perspective, 
and as you know each perspective can have have multiple view parts. Inside 
each of the view parts in the perspective there is a gadget.  This design 
is very similar to the iGoogle concept.  However in my case when a gadget 
in the view part calls gadgets.window.setTitle I would expect that call to 
set the title of the view part.  This would imply some Javascript <-> Java 
communication happening.  This communication would be easy if there was a 
guice module that gadgets.window.setTitle called into, because then I 
could replace that guice module with my own implementation.  However it 
looks like the setTitle feature is using gadgets.rpc.  My understanding is 
that gadgets.rpc is for container <-> gadget, gadget <-> gadget, and 
gadget <-> iFrame communication.  However in my use case my container is 
implemented in Java and not HTML, and gadgets.rpc seems to only allow you 
to do the communication through Javascript.  There are other APIs that 
require gadget <->container communication as well, and I assume they are 
all using gadgets.rpc.  It's fine if this is the case, I will have to 
think of some "creative" ways to solve this, I just want to make sure all 
my above assumptions are correct before I begin down that path.

-Ryan

Email: rjbaxter@us.ibm.com
Phone: 978-899-3041
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