GWT in Action

by Adam Tacy, Robert Hanson, Jason Essington, Anna Tokke

Overview

Summary

GWT in Action, Second Edition is a completely revised edition of the best-selling GWT book. It covers the new features introduced in GWT 2.4 and 2.5, 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.

About the Technology

Google Web Toolkit works on a simple idea. Write your web application in Java, and GWT crosscompiles it into JavaScript. It is open source, supported by Google, and version 2.5 now includes a library of high-quality interface components and productivity tools that make using GWT a snap. The JavaScript it produces is really good.

About this Book

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.

Written for Java developers, the book requires no prior knowledge of GWT.

Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book.

What's Inside

• Covers GWT 2.4 and up
• Efficient use of large data sets
• Optimizing with client bundles, deferred binding, and code splitting
• Using generators and dependency injection

About the Authors

Adam Tacy and Robert Hanson coauthored the first edition of GWT in Action. Jason Essington is a Java developer and an active contributor to the GWT mailing list and the GWT IRC channel. Anna Tökke is a programmer and solutions architect working with GWT on a daily basis.
Table of Contents

GWT
1. Building a GWT application: saying "Hello World!"
2. Building a GWT application: enhancing Hello World
Creating your own widgets
3. Using client bundles
4. Interface design with UiBinder
5. Communicating with GWT-RPC
6. Using RequestFactory
7. The Editor framework
8. Data-presentation (cell) widgets
9. Using JSNI—JavaScript Native Interface
10. Classic Ajax and HTML forms
11. Internationalization, localization, and accessibility
Advanced event handling and event busses
12. Building MVP-based applications
13. Dependency injection
14. Deferred binding
15. Generators
16. Metrics and code splitting

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935182849
Publisher:	Manning
Publication date:	02/10/2013
Edition description:	2nd Edition
Pages:	680
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Adam Tacy is a consultant working for WM- Data in the Nordics and a contributor to the GWT Widget Library project. He coauthored the first edition of GWT in Action from Manning Publications.

Robert Hanson is a US-based senior Internet engineer and creator of the popular open source GWT Widget Library. Robert also maintains a blog at http://roberthanson.blogspot.com where he talks about GWT and other topics relating to the industry. He coauthored the first edition of GWT in Action from Manning Publications.

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.

Anna Tökke is a programmer and solutions architect working with GWT on a daily basis.