Manning GWT in Action, Easy Ajax with the Google Web Toolkit (2007)
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) slashes through the issues that surround multibrowser Ajax development. It moves the development lifecycle into the type-safe language of Java while retaining the capability to access JavaScript and third-party libraries. GWT offers the opportunity to develop your Ajax application once for use in multiple browsers and configurations. GWT in Action aims to give you a solid foundation for developing GWT applications. It puts all the tools and development tasks into the context of typical application development, ensuring that you can understand and avoid the problems faced in GWT development. Throughout the book, the development of a Dashboard application, together with various component applications for the Dashboard, provides the mechanism we use to explain GWT concepts. We start by providing a solid background on the basics, looking at the tools that are used and where they’re used in a typical development lifecycle. Then, we consider widgets, panels, and events, discussing those provided by GWT and how to create your own (leaning heavily on our experience from developing components for the GWT Widget Library).
