Extendable Compilation - A way to allow for runtime manageable extensions

Hi group,

for the last couple of days I have read a lot on the somewhat hot topic of runtime extensions in GWT (or rather
the lack of it). In a nutshell, runtime extensions are not supported since compiling modules separately and glueing them together at runtime
(or deploy time) goes against many of the core philosophies of GWT since the compiler can then not work its magic properly. So here is my question.
Is there maybe a way to tell the GWT compiler to "integrate" a provided module against already compiled code. What I imagine
is that in the application you can drop in a jar file and tell the GWT compiler to compile the new code against what has already been
compiled. This should of course, be much faster than actually doing a recompile of the entire application and thus come
at the cost of fewer optimizations for the integrated code. However, this would provide some form of plugin concept where
the large main part of an application is monolithically compiled and certain small parts could be integrated "at run time".

Does that make any sense and is there any chance of making this work?

I am looking forward to hearing any thoughts on this (or on any other plausible plugin concept for GWT).

Cheers

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