Course
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Development
With the advent of HTML5 and CSS3, developers often find themselves having to implement a lot of client-side JavaScript code. However, JavaScript is more complex than many people think, and it can be unproductive if you have a large amount of JavaScript to write.
Duration: 2 days
Who is it for:
Layout: This course is a mixture of lectures and hands on exercises designed to reinforce the topics learnt
Objectives
- Creating Web applications using GWT
- Using GWT UI widgets and layouts
- Remote communication using GWT-RPC
- Using JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI)
- Creating Ajax-enabled web pages
- Internationalization
Modules
Getting Started with GWT
- Overview of GWT
- Examples of GWT in popular web sites
- GWT support for the Java class library
- GWT capabilities and benefits
Creating a GWT Application
- GWT application structure
- GWT modules
- The starter entry-point class
- The starter HTML host page
- Running GWT applications
Using GWT UI Widgets
- Overview of GWT widgets
- Creating GWT widgets
- Laying out a page
- Event handling interfaces
- Implementing event handlers
Remote Communication using GWT-RPC
- GWT-RPC architecture
- Asynchronous programming
- GWT-RPC classes, interfaces, and annotations
- Object marshalling
- Implementing the client
- Handling errors
JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI)
- Overview of JSNI
- Invoking a JSNI method
- Overlaying objects
- Wrapping third-party libraries
GWT and Ajax
- Overview of Ajax principles
- GWT support for Ajax
- Defining the service interface
- Implementing the servlet class
- Configuring the servlet
- Enabling session state
- Making a call from the client
Globalization and Localization
- Overview of internationalization in GWT
- Bundles
- Static string internationalization
- Dynamic string internationalization
- Dates, times, and currencies
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