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GWT in Action, Second Edition Adam Tacy, Robert Hanson, Jason Essington, Ian Bambury, and Christopher Ramsdale MEAP Began: May 2011 Softbound print: August 2012 (est.) | 500 pages ISBN: 9781935182849 |
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Table of Contents, MEAP Chapters & Resources
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PART I: Basics
1. Introducing GWT - FREE 2. Saying Hello World - AVAILABLE 3. Realizing a GWT application - AVAILABLE PART II: Next Steps 4. Creating your own widgets - AVAILABLE 5. Using client bundles 6. Interface design with UIBinder - AVAILABLE 7. Communicating with GWT-RPC - AVAILABLE 8. Data presentation widgets 9. Using JSNI - the JavaScript Native Interface - AVAILABLE 10. Classic Ajax and HTML forms - AVAILABLE 11. Internationalization and localization - AVAILABLE 12. Testing PART III: Advanced 13. The event bus / event handling 14. Building MVP based applications - AVAILABLE 15. Dependency Injection - AVAILABLE 16. Deferred binding - AVAILABLE 17. Automatically generating code - AVAILABLE 18. Metrics and code splitting - AVAILABLE |
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DESCRIPTION
Google Web Toolkit, or GWT, works on a simple, but powerful idea. You write a web application in Java and GWT cross-compiles it into JavaScript. This free, open source collection of tools is both supported and used by Google. The latest version, GWT 2.4, includes a library of high-quality interface components, an easy-to-use designer, and productivity tools that make using GWT a snap. And yes, the JavaScript it produces is really, really good.
GWT in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised edition of the best-selling GWT book. It covers all the new features introduced in GWT 2, as well as the best development practices that have emerged in the GWT community. It begins with a rapid-fire introduction to GWT and Ajax to get you up to speed with GWT concepts and tools. Then, you'll explore key concepts like managing events, interacting with the server, creating UI components, building your user interface declaratively using UiBinder and more.
As you move through the engaging examples, you'll pick up the skills you need to stay ahead of the pack. You'll absorb the latest thinking in application design and industry-grade best practices, such as implementing MVP, using Dependency Injection, and code optimization.
WHAT'S INSIDE
- Creating and understanding GWT applications
- Communicating with GWT-RPC, HTTPRequest, RequestBuilder, JSONRequestBuilder, FormPanel
- Using the powerful new UiBinder to declaratively build interfaces
- Implementing efficient views of large data sets and using GWT Editors
- Optimizing your application with client bundles, deferred binding, and code splitting
- Reducing the amount of code you need to write using Generators and Dependency Injection
- Make your GWT app flexible, supportable and internationalized
Google designed GWT to make it easier to build and maintain large-scale web apps. This book will show you how. This book is written for Java developers, but no prior experience with GWT is required.
About the Authors
Adam Tacy is a consultant for Logica based in the Nordics with over 14 years experience in IT most of those years spent in enhancing processes or managing projects. He co-authored GWT in Action with Robert Hanson in 2007 and has particular interest in how GWT 2 reduces costs (development, maintenance and management) of complex web projects.
Robert Hanson is the Applications Development Manager for Quality Technology Services and has spent over 12 years developing high-performance web applications. He released the first open-source library of GWT tools and widgets in 2006. He co-authored the first edition of 'GWT in Action', and is an avid supporter of GWT, posting entries on his technology blog launching a separate website dedicated to some of his experimental ideas.
Jason Essington is a Java software engineer for Calypso Technology with over 12 years experience in the treasury and financial industries. He has been an advocate of GWT since its public release, and is an active member of the GWT community contributing to both the mailing list and the GWT IRC channel.
Ian Bambury is a freelance consultant who has been involved in IT for 25 years as everything from a Junior Programmer to IT Manager for a company with offices in over 80 countries. He has been using GWT since version 1.0, is the creator of the Roughian Examples GWT Reference web site, and a regular contributor to the GWT forum.
Chris Ramsdale has lived and worked in the Atlanta area for the past 13 years. Working in the mobile space with local companies such as Motorola, AppForge, and Air2Web, Chris has held positions as a Software Engineer, Tech Lead, and Product Manager. His current endeavor is working within Google's Developer Relations team to develop and advocate GWT best practices.
About the Early Access Version
This Early Access version of GWT in Action, Second Edition enables you to receive new chapters as they are being written. You can also interact with the authors to ask questions, provide feedback and errata, and help shape the final manuscript on the Author Online
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