Monthly Archives: March 2008

A CAL webapp with persistent data using GWT, STM and BDB

March 27, 2008 – 10:24 pm

aka, attack of the TLAs.

This webapp’s architecture is depicted below:

The browser runs a Javascript thick client compiled from Java by GWT. Some of the classes have CAL annotations. These don’t affect the client, but allow the server side of the GWT RPC protocol to call CAL functions. The CAL functions store persistent data using Software Transactional [...]

By Tom Davies | Posted in CAL and Open Quark, Computer Science, Java | Comments (3)

GWT as a CAL client

March 15, 2008 – 7:12 pm

I’ve been interested in GWT as a way of building rich Internet applications since it appeared, and I’m very pleased to see it getting better and better.

So it’s natural that I’d want to try using it with CAL, a functional language quite similar to Haskell which runs on the JVM.

I used a similar approach to [...]

By Tom Davies | Posted in CAL and Open Quark, Java | Tagged | Comments (0)