9.10. Summary

The Editor framework cuts programming time. It automates copying operations from some backing objects all the way to the user.

Different types of editors exist that would be suitable for all kinds of situations. The framework provides all sorts of adapters for reusing editor logic and reduces the need for defining your own editors.

The combination of the RequestFactory framework and Editor framework gives you a powerful tool for moving data from remote objects on a server all the way to a widget that presents the data to the end user.

We hope you found out how useful the Editor framework is for building widgets quickly without any boilerplate code to move data between the UI and a domain object graph. In the next chapter we’ll ...

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