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		johnyzee on July 15, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Java Origins of Angular JS: Angular vs. JSF vs... It's not true that most deploys are a protocol change - only changes that would also change Java serialization's serial UID will cause GWT-RPC clients to become incompatible. I routinely deploy a new version while hundreds of users are online and nobody is the wiser.

skybrian on July 15, 2014 [–]

Well, that's true; it depends on how complex your protocol is and how often you change it. Simplicity is good!

But this can be tricky for large, distributed projects, where the author of a class might not even be aware that it's used with GWT.

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