Category: Tools

January 21, 2025

Jakarta API Transition: What It Means for Developers

There is an ongoing shift in the Java ecosystem from JavaX to Jakarta, which is creating real headaches for developers and software vendors. At SmartClient, we’re stepping up to help our customers navigate these changes with practical tools and clear answers. We’re excited to share that our upcoming product lineup will bridge the gap between the older JavaX APIs and...

Categories Technology/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Tools

February 12, 2024

Build a React Excel-like Grid with SmartClient

Most React projects use a third-party component when they require a responsive and dynamic data grid. Sadly, most third-party libraries can’t quite offer the extensive feature set that enterprise applications need to manage millions of rows of data. If this is your situation, the SmartClient React component is your best choice. SmartClient provides a comprehensive suite of UI components for...

Categories UI/Feature/SmartClient/Technology/Tools/Tutorials/Uncategorized

November 27, 2023

Multi-Record Editing in SmartClient

Multi-record editing is often a complex process involving tracking and managing pending edits across multiple records. It encompasses several data management concerns. They include temporarily storing and merging edits server-side, ensuring optimal performance, addressing potential collisions, and even applying distinct styling for edited values. It also requires cleaning up any temporary storage used on the server.  By leveraging the extensive...

Categories SmartClient/dashboard/performance/Technology/Tools/Tutorials/UI

August 29, 2023

Introducing SmartClient UI Components for React Applications

When building your web application in React, having the right UI component library is extremely crucial. Through Isomorphic Software’s SmartClient library, you have the most powerful, comprehensive suite of UI components for a React web application. Additionally, you can add UI screens to your React apps using the Reify component in the SmartClient UI library. These components provide unparalleled functionality...

Categories Technology/Industry/Reify/SmartClient/Tools/UI

December 8, 2022

Fallacies of React: Why so many React projects fail

If you use React, it’s easy to hire experienced developers, and you can use the best components available from a variety of sources, right? Wrong. Unfortunately, this is not at all true, for two main reasons: To be clear: React is a solid technology, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with it. The problem comes from misunderstanding the nature of React....

Categories SmartClient/Industry/performance/Technology/Tools/UI

November 21, 2022

Why Everything Is CRUD

Many web frameworks have very advanced support for the so-called “CRUD” operations, that is, Create, Retrieve, Update, Delete, also known in SQL as Insert, Select, Update and Delete. Often, when developers see the CRUD features in these frameworks – like data grids that know how to perform CRUD operations, as in SmartClient – they react by saying: well, that’s great...

Categories performance/Choice/Industry/SmartClient/SmartGWT/Technology/Tools

August 26, 2022

Web Application Optimization: Why Most Advice Is Wrong

Most of the advice you run into regarding web application optimization is not only wrong, it’s what I call catastrophically wrong, meaning that it: That’s a big claim, and I will back it up. Before we begin, we need a clear definition of performance for a web application.  Only with a good definition of performance in hand can we begin to discuss web application optimization, what’s wrong with so...

Categories Choice/performance/SmartClient/Technology/Tools

September 20, 2018

Bot Editor Chrome Extension – Developed w/ Smart GWT

A great variety of companies use the SmartClient platform. They: Range from startups to large corporations Are located around the globe And span the full spectrum of verticals (pharma, govt, telecoms, you name it!) However, we still occasionally come across solutions built with our technology that are a little off the beaten path. For instance, here’s one from long-time Smart...

Categories Customer Success/Tools

August 9, 2018

Grid Filters: Pick the right tool for the job

It is generally accepted that a good user interface is one that allows users to perform the task at hand efficiently and effectively. It should be as simple as possible to limit distraction and misunderstandings. When it comes to filtering data in grids, providing users with every filtering capability in the toolshed is therefore probably not the way to go....

Categories Tools/UI

March 30, 2018

Bonus Stuff in Release 12: SVG support for images, calendar event selection, and more

OK, so there are a few extra things in Release 12 we didn’t get around to telling you about. SVG support for images With Release 12, SVG may be specified as the source file for an Img or ImgButton. For example, the three Img widgets below are defined by SVG using common external CSS. By changing the Color Scheme from...

Categories Feature/Mobile/Release 12/SVG/Tools/UI