March 21st, 2007 - Written by in News
Adam Tracy and Robert Hanson have posted a really nice, comprehensive GWT demo to go along with their book, GWT in Action. From Adam’s post on the newsgroup, the demo includes:
…menus loaded from XML, drag and drop, internationalization, RPC server communication, sliders, editable labels, widget functionality restricted to locales, several new widgets (including menu items with toggle-able images and generally uses as much of GWT as we could cram into one application!).Loads of events are handled via different components, including double click on the windows, window close events and overiding default browser functionality (for example, the book icon can be dragged to the browser’s location bar but the trash icon cannot).
The application also uses GWT Generator technology to “introspect” at compile time the component applications to show the methods and fields available; JSNI is employed to wrap the Google AJAX search component (together with the Video search extension) and we use proxy servers to call the Yahoo Search functionality. GWT RPC is used to query data from the running server – and there’s much much more.
The demo is pretty slick and the book is supposed to describe how to create the full app. Also Adam has mentioned that the entire book is now available via the early access program. So check it out.
New GWT Server Library Release
March 19th, 2007 - Written by in News
George Georgovassilis has released version 0.1.3 of the GWT Server Library (GWT-SL) which is a subproject of the GWT Widget Library.
For those who don’t know, its goal is to help integrate Spring with GWT.
New Features (from the site)
- Added GWTController which delegates requests to encapsulated services.
- Reworked the examples
- Reworked the build process
- Added build target which builds java 1.4 jars with 1.5 JDKs
- Added changelog
- Refactored GWTSpringController to use some common code with the new GWTController
- Added ServletUtils helper class which allows access to the invoking thread’s ServletRequest and ServletResponse
Yet another GWT book (Part II)
March 8th, 2007 - Written by in News
Wow, the GWT books are coming out fast and furious now. Manning has a second GWT book available in their Early Access Program called GWT in Practice by Robert Cooper and Charles Collins.
From the site:
GWT in Practice is an example-driven, code-rich book designed for web developers who have already learned the basics of GWT. After a quick review of GWT fundamentals, GWT in Practice presents scores of handy, reusable solutions to the problems you face when you need to move beyond “Hello World” and “proof of concept” applications. This book skips the theory and looks at the way things really work when you’re building projects in GWT.
So this looks like it fills the niche of a more advanced GWT book. Currently the first 4 chapters are available with Chapter 1 being a free download.