In GWT, there are two ways of making asynchronous, server-side calls: the (older) GWT-RPC, and the (newer) RequestFactory. I’m looking through GWT’s API docs for the first time, and seeing a construct that is seemingly used everywhere called GWT.runAsync.
How does this GWT.runAsync relate to GWT-RPC and RequestFactory? Is GWT.runAsync simply the GWT-RPC way of doing things? Or can it be applied to both?
GWT.runAsyncdoes not relate to GWT-RPC or RequestFactory. Both GWT-RPC and RequestFactory are asynchronous and cannot be used in a synchronous manner.