Do you think that using just GWT and Hibernate sound like a “sane” solution for a web application that needs a very rich UI?
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Do you think that using just GWT and Hibernate sound like a “sane” solution for a web application that needs a very rich UI?
In a nutshell, Yes.
You seem to have 2 requirements:
Rich user interface:
As you probably know, GWT can be used to make Rich UI applications. The possibilities is virtually endless.
Hibernate does not play any role in point 1.
Scalability,
There is indeed a great overhead with the datamodels since every Hibernate entity will have to be mapped with a GWT model when sending them to the client. As users have specified above, there are third party applications that help you do so. Adding new data models will trigger changes to both server and client code. However if your architecture is strong enought, this should not be a big issue.