8.6. Summary
We covered a lot in this chapter and carefully explained each point. We believe the thorough explanation and the working example we provided are warranted given the newness and importance of RequestFactory. The importance is that RequestFactory is the first RPC tool provided with GWT that allows you to communicate using Java objects without tying the client and server code together.
In previous versions of GWT the only comparable RPC tool was GWT-RPC, but because of how it works it was difficult sometimes to integrate with both server-side persistence frameworks and Dependency Injection (DI) containers like the Spring Framework. Workarounds were always found, but they weren’t clean solutions, like those RequestFactory provides. ...
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