Spring Roo, relationship status with GWT? recommended for more apps more complex than basic CRUD?

Hi all,

I came across Spring Roo recently and have put in a considerable amount of research as far as whether to use it for my app or not. However, I'm running into a couple of issues in my consideration.

1) GWT support:
  Spring Roo integration with GWT (more specifically the gwt addon for Roo to make MVP life easier) was presented back in 2010 in the IO keynote (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQHlhIIxCIc) and in a talk by Ray Ryan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5x6E6ze1x8) and it seemed promising. However, in all my googling it seems like the gwt-roo presence/community has been sorely lacking, is it just me? Is GWT still on the Roo bandwagon? The last doc on it by gwt (https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/roo-sts) still references 2.1, and if you following it currently, all the STS side stuff doesn't run properly (at least it didn't for me).

2) My app is going to be more complex than simple CRUD. Ideally, if I were to use Roo, I would only want it to do it's "magic" for the Model/domain layer, but leave the Presenter and View layers to me and not interfere with them. In all my searching I couldn't find any docs referencing this specifically (aside from some obscure blog posts which are even direct). Is it that it's not possible or too hairy? Or am I trying to have my cake and eat it too?

3) Finally, does the GWT community even recommend using Roo instead of just going with RequestFactory and just writing the services yourself (for Model/domain interaction)? Do the benefits of using Roo outweigh the drawbacks when aiming for a more-than-CRUD app?

I love the idea of being able to declare a field in my entity and having compile time shell create the corresponding boilerplate stuff for the model and services communication, but not if it's going to be a huge headache trying to set it up so that it will do that properly.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions, comments, help, I know this was a little long....I really appreciate it.

-Seth

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