Category: Technology

July 9, 2020

Amazing new Features for V13.0 (Part 2)

Following on from our last feature post for V13.0, welcome to our second installment of even more fantastic capabilities that will be available in the next release of SmartClient and SmartGWT. Persistent Hovers Sometimes, a hover is so useful you want it to stick around!  Now, you can just use the focusHoverKey setting to provide a keyboard shortcut for a...

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June 23, 2020

Coming Soon in Release 13.0

We are excited to share with you some of our upcoming features due to be launched in V13.0 of SmartClient and SmartGWT. Open API Support Integrating with other technologies just got a lot simpler!!! We’ve always made it pretty simple. If you’re using our technology, whenever you define a DataSource, we automatically provide a REST-based interface to it.  This means...

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November 8, 2019

The Difference Between SmartClient and Smart GWT

We often get asked about the difference between SmartClient and Smart GWT. The answer is: ‘not much‘. When you’re running SmartGWT, you’re also running SmartClient When you are running SmartGWT, you are also running SmartClient.  You are using SmartClient’s widgets, data binding, browser compatibility, etc. See the SmartClient vs SmartGWT architecture diagrams below: As you can see, we only use the...

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March 8, 2018

Release 12 Preview Part IV: SASS, Surface, Show/Hide Icons and more

We are putting the final touches on Release 12. Here are the related blog posts so far: We’re Working on ’12’ Obsidian skin TypeScript support, Selenium 3.0 support, and more Stratus skin Bonus Features: SVG Support for images, calendar event selection, and more On top of all this, there are a bunch more features we’re really excited to tell you about:...

Categories Feature/Release 12/Roadmap/Technology/Tools/UI

October 31, 2017

We’ve Finally Made it …

In the movie ‘Iron Sky’, the main computer of the Götterdämmerung space battleship is a laptop that was stolen on Earth and reprogrammed by a Nazi scientist. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ll know that a bunch of source code is shown on the main computer (see the image below): Now, when any code is shown in movies, there are...

Categories Customers/Technology

April 24, 2017

The Future of GWT

Here at Isomorphic, we fairly regularly get asked about the future of GWT. We thought we would give you a status update and provide some background info to put your mind at rest. Back in Jan 2012, Google switched from total control over the evolution of GWT, to a new model where GWT would be controlled by a “steering committee”....

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October 13, 2016

Java Ecosystem Insights, Free Cloud Expo Pass … and One More Thing

Exec Insights on the State of the Java Ecosystem Tom Smith from DZone recently interviewed Isomorphic CTO, Charles Kendrick, and several other execs, to get insights into the state of the Java ecosystem. Tom’s article was published in Dzone’s Guide to Modern Java. A few of the highlights were: The open source community is driving more innovation than Oracle Java...

Categories DevOps/Industry/Roadmap/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology/Tools

July 19, 2016

DevOps Patterns and Anti-patterns: How to do the Right Thing in the Real World.

In DevOps, what patterns lead to success? What are the anti-patterns that should be avoided? Charles Kendrick – CTO here at Isomorphic Software – recently participated in a DevOps power panel at the Cloud Expo in New York. The session was very well attended and incredibly well received. We thought we would share a few of the questions posed to...

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July 8, 2016

Have you heard of Adaptive Filtering?

Adaptive filtering helps make your applications run lightening fast, not only on the desktop, but also on tablets and smartphones. How does it do this? It automatically switches to client-side filtering when the dataset becomes small enough. In doing so, it eliminates up to 90% of the most costly types of server contact (searching through large datasets), dramatically improving responsiveness and scalability. Want to...

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May 4, 2016

Join us at the DevOps Conference – Get your FREE Pass

Join us at the DevOps Conference Isomorphic will be at the DevOps Summit in the Javits Center, NY next month (June 7-9), and we’d love you to join us. Follow the steps at the bottom of the page to get your FREE VIP GOLD FULL CONFERENCE PASS. One of the highlights will be our CTO, Charles Kendrick, discussing how to leverage technology to accelerate Agile...

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