Google Web Toolkit: Taking the pain out of Ajax

Burnette E.

Google Web Toolkit unifies client and server code into a single application written in one language: Java. GWT lets you create a web application in much the same way as you would create a Swing application – creating visual components, setting up event handlers, debugging, and so forth – all within a familiar IDE.This Friday provides you with a thorough introduction to the Google Web Toolkit. From installation, through your first application, to UI components and Remote Procedure calls, you’ll learn the ins and outs of the framework. Some knowledge of Java programming and HTML is assumed, but you don’t have to be an expert in web programming.

---

Table of contents :
Life before GWT……Page 5
What GWT does for you……Page 6
About this book……Page 7
Installing……Page 9
Create scaffolding……Page 10
Running and debugging……Page 11
Hosted mode……Page 15
Web mode……Page 17
Obfuscation……Page 19
Deployment……Page 20
Tying into HTML……Page 21
Entry point……Page 22
Events……Page 24
Widgets……Page 25
Panels……Page 31
Where does your code live?……Page 36
Why a new protocol?……Page 37
GWT RPC basics……Page 38
Serialization……Page 43
History Listener……Page 47
How it Works……Page 48
Example……Page 49
Declaring a Native Method……Page 52
Calling JSNI from Java……Page 53
Calling Java from JSNI……Page 54
Example……Page 56
Constants, Messages, and Dictionary……Page 59
Creating the properties file……Page 60
Creating the accessor class……Page 61
Referring to messages……Page 62
Making module changes……Page 63
Running the example……Page 64
Language subset……Page 66
Library subset……Page 68
Supported packages……Page 69
Regular Expressions……Page 72