The work done can be listed as follow:
Google Maps Compoenent is ready to use. I tried to integrate Google Web Toolkit into our project. The method I worked on was to use GWT’s rpc support and then to use the generated stub of it inside jsp. Since it is a very good practice to write platform independent AJAX code in totally JAVA I chose this method by I concluded that it is actually not a good idea.
Therefore, I have written a servlet that returns a JSON object for the server side and I implemented the client-side in JavaScript.
I worked on the Ajax support of our Google Maps integration. I am working with Google Web Toolkit’s rpc support. Although it is stated that in its api that serializable classes can be sent via this method and our auto-generated classes take advantage of java’s serializable interface there is a problem. I am going to work on this problem.
I have written a very basic package for handling Google Maps-User interaction. The main problem is that we need to get advantage of AJAX support for getting venue information from the server. We need to fetch a venue’s information when it’s marker is visible on the map(we should not fetch all of the venues information because of performance issues). I am going to work on this issue.