Adam Tacy

GWT in Action, Second Edition

GWT in Action, Second Edition is a revised edition of the best-selling GWT book. In it, you'll explore key concepts like managing events, interacting with the server, and creating UI components. As you move through its engaging examples, you'll absorb the latest thinking in application design and industry-grade best practices, such as implementing MVP, using dependency injection, and code optimization.

GWT in Action

GWT in Action shows you how to take advantage of these exciting new tools. This clearly-written book is packed with hands-on GWT examples. You'll absorb the GWT philosophy as you build your first working GWT application.

The book begins by exploring the main features of GWT, including

• Compiling Java to JavaScript, the magic that really defines GWT
• Building client-side components
• Convenient JUnit integration and testing
• Interacting with JavaScript and existing JavaScript libraries
• Internationalization

You'll also see how GWT compares to other toolkits.

GWT in Action shows you how to set up your development environment, use and create widgets, communicate with the server, and much more. Readers will follow an example running throughout the book and quickly master the basics of GWT: widgets, panels, and event handling. The book covers the full development cycle, from setting up your development environment, to building the application, then deploying it to the web server. The entire core GWT library is discussed, with details and examples on how it can be extended.

You'll cover:

• Testing, debugging, and deploying GWT Applications
• Communicating with GWT-RPC
• Examining client-side RPC architecture
• Alternative RPC tools: HTTPRequest, RequestBuilder, and FormPanel
• Achieving interoperability in GWT with JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
• Making your GWT application flexible and supportable

GWT helps you make the most of Ajax in your web applications and GWT in Action helps you get more out of GWT.