GWT in Action: Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit

631 Pages·2007·10.944 MB·English

by  Robert Hanson, Adam Tac

GWT in Action

GWT in Action
EASY AJAX WITH THE GOOGLE WEB TOOLKIT
ROBERT HANSON
ADAM TACY
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To my son, David

Thank you for letting me shorten playtime so many times,
so that Daddy could work on his book.
—RH

To my parents

Everything I have achieved is because of something you did for me.
Thank you.
—AT

brief contents
PART 1 GETTING STARTED .......................................................1
1 ■ Introducing GWT 3
2 ■ Creating the default application 38
3 ■ Advancing to your own application 64
PART 2 BUILDING USER INTERFACES .....................................107
4 ■ Working with widgets 109
5 ■ Working with panels 157
6 ■ Handling events 192
7 ■ Creating composite widgets 246
8 ■ Building JSNI components 277
9 ■ Modularizing an application 317
PART 3 ADVANCED TECHNIQUES ...........................................345
10 ■ Communicating with GWT-RPC 347
11 ■ Examining client-side RPC architecture 375
12 ■ Classic Ajax and HTML forms 409
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13 ■ Achieving interoperability with JSON 442
14 ■ Automatically generating new code 471
15 ■ Changing applications based on GWT properties 494
PART 4 COMPLETING THE UNDERSTANDING ..........................525
16 ■ Testing and deploying GWT applications 527
17 ■ Peeking into how GWT works 555
contents
preface xix
acknowledgments xxi
about this book xxiii
about the title xxx
about the cover illustration xxxi
PART 1 GETTING STARTED ............................................1
1 Introducing GWT 3
1.1 A walk through GWT 5
Explaining GWT's Java-to-JavaScript compiler 6 ■ Using JSNI
to execute JavaScript from Java 8 ■ Accessing the JRE emulation
library 10 ■ Understanding GWT's widget and panel
library 12 ■ Examining GWT’s internationalization and
configuration tools 14 ■ Calling remote procedures with
GWT 16 ■ Investigating GWT’s XML parser 20 ■
Managing the browser history 21 ■ Introducing GWT’s
JUnit integration 22
1.2 GWT vs. other solutions 23
GWT vs. Swing 25 ■ GWT vs. Echo2 26 ■ GWT vs.
JavaServer Faces 27 ■ GWT vs. Ruby on Rails 29
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