Archive for August, 2009

Best Practices for Architecting your GWT App

This video provides excellent information on developing a high performance web application using the Google Web Toolkit. The video presents the best practices by showing how real web applications achieve high performance event handling, UI creation, and more. Rating 4.20 out of 5 [ READ MORE ]

Google Web Toolkit Blog: Widget Best Practices / Widget Building

Developers often asked what’s the best way to go about building custom widgets. There are of course a number of best practices to consider when answering this question. In this post I’ll highlight a few I like to start off with. Google Web Toolkit Blog: Widget Best Practices / Widget Building. Rating 3.22 out of 5 [ READ MORE ]

Forms with FileUpload in GWT

In this tutorial we are going to work on creating a form in GWT, and then we are going to work through processing the form from a Java servlet. File uploads with AJAX is certainly one of the more difficult aspects of programming on the client side, but with GWT you can easily implement [ READ MORE ]

UIBinder for GWT 2.0

GWT 2.0 is scheduled to be release later this year, and I wanted to keep you informed on an interesting new feature coming in the next milestone build. The UIBinder will allow you to develop GWT widgets using XML files, and I think the entire GWT community should be excited by this new feature. [ READ MORE ]

Using Multiple Modules in GWT

In this tutorial we are going to work through creating multiple modules for a GWT web application. Multiple modules are a great way to organize and reuse your GWT code, and it is a good way to develop multiple GWT pages with only one entry point. If you are not familiar with the structure [ READ MORE ]

GWT JSNI

JSNI stands for JavaScript Native Interface, and it allows for you to quickly use native JavaScript right in your Java code. With the use of JSNI, you are also able to pass parameters back and forth between JavaScript code and Java code, which increases your capabilities for writing client side applications. So why should you [ READ MORE ]

GWT History

The browser history has always been finicky at best when working with AJAX, but I believe GWT has one of the best frameworks for handling browser history. For this tutorial, you should have a good idea on how to use GWT’s Anchor widget, and also you should know what a hash is, but if not [ READ MORE ]

Anchors in GWT

This tutorial is going to cover the use of the Anchor widget in GWT. The Anchor widget is important because it is going to allow you to link to other pages as well as to pages within your own project. The primary reason why I am writing a specific tutorial on the Anchor widget is [ READ MORE ]