I have been evaluating Jsweet since the past 4 days in order to finalize a tool that can be used to modernize an application from applet to html5/js based front end. I have been able to try the trial examples where applet based java files are getting transpiled to .js files. As a next step I need to have Jsweet introduced to the an applet based application which has 9 tabs with considerable components like dashboards, report generation related drop downs, date picker elements, tables etc. However this application which I need to modernize is not maven based and hence does not have a pom.xml. It is executed using Tomcat.
- Is maven a pre requisite for Jsweet?
- My expectations from Jsweet are that if I am able to introduce Jsweet to my codebase like in the example and able to create a build using maven, I should be in a position to get .js files created in the target>js>applet folder. Could these be confirmed please?
You might consider CheerpJ (https://leaningtech.com/cheerpj/) for this project. From your description it seems likely that the applet would work out-of-the-box.
If you want to give quickly give it a try: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cheerpj-applet-runner/bbmolahhldcbngedljfadjlognfaaein
Full disclosure: I am lead dev of CheerpJ and CTO of LeaningTech.