Part 1 Getting started

1 Introducing GWT

1.1 A walk through GWT

1.2 GWT vs. other solutions

1.3 Building your first GWT application

1.4 Summary

2 Creating the default application

2.1 The GWT application development lifecycle

2.2 Stage 1: Creating a GWT application

2.3 Summary

3 Advancing to your own application

3.1 Describing the application example

3.2 Stage 2: Developing your application

3.3 Stage 3: Testing and debugging in hosted mode

3.4 Stage 4: Compiling the code

3.5 Stage 5: Deploying the code

3.6 Stage 6: Running in web mode

3.7 Implementing application logging

3.8 Summary

Part 2 Building user interfaces

4 Working with widgets

4.1 What is a widget?

4.2 The standard GWT widgets

4.3 Creating new widgets

4.4 Developing the Dashboard’s ToggleMenuItem widget

4.5 Summary

5 Working with panels

5.1 What is a panel?

5.2 The standard GWT panels

5.3 Creating new panels

5.4 Creating the Dashboard panel

5.5 Summary

6 Handling events

6.1 Exploring events

6.2 Listening to events

6.3 Handling standard browser events

6.4 Handling other event types

6.5 Implementing drag-and-drop

6.6 Summary

7 Creating composite widgets

7.1 What is a composite widget?

7.2 Composite widget development steps

7.3 Building the editable label

7.4 Creating a composite widget from other composite widgets

7.5 Creating the Dashboard composite

7.6 Summary

8 Building JSNI components

8.1 Introducing JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI)

8.2 Communicating using JSNI

8.3 Loading a JavaScript library

8.4 Wrapping a simple JavaScript library

8.5 Wrapping a complex JavaScript library

8.6 Summary

9 Modularizing an application

9.1 Creating a modularization structure

9.2 Including third-party modules

9.3 Packaging your own modules

9.4 Creating the Java package structure

9.5 Summary

Part 3 Advanced techniques

10 Communicating with GWT-RPC

10.1 Underlying RPC concepts

10.2 Implementing GWT-RPC

10.3 Project summary

10.4 Summary

11 Examining client-side RPC architecture

11.1 Structuring the client code

11.2 Examining different polling techniques

11.3 Writing custom field serializers

11.4 Summary

12 Classic Ajax and HTML forms

12.1 Classic Ajax with RequestBuilder

12.2 Examining FormPanel basics

12.3 Summary

13 Achieving interoperability with JSON

13.1 Introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

13.2 Examining GWT’s JSON data objects

13.3 Creating a search component using JSON

13.4 Implementing a Yahoo Search proxy service

13.5 Summary

14 Automatically generating new code

14.1 Generating new types

14.2 Investigating GWT generators

14.3 Creating a generator for the Dashboard

14.4 Summary

15 Changing applications based on GWT properties

15.1 Quick summary of properties

15.2 Managing browser differences

15.3 Supporting internationalization in full

15.4 Altering the application for the locale

15.5 Implementing user-defined properties

15.6 Summary

Part 4 Completing the understanding

16 Testing and deploying GWT applications

16.1 Testing GWT code using JUnit

16.2 Deploying GWT applications

16.3 Summary

17 Peeking into how GWT works

17.1 Examining the compilation process and output

17.2 The GWT application-loading mechanism

17.3 Compiling Java to JavaScript

17.4 Summary
 
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