Up until about ten months ago, very few people would have considered javascript as a language in which one could build significant portions of the UI of an enterprise application. If, say, I needed to display a table of information with support for sortin
I'm working on this mostly to get familiar with JSNI and structuring in GWT. The sample is far from complete, but it's enough if all you want is the JSNI to interface with YUI's DragDrop. All you need to look at are the Draggables and Droppables classes a
At the 2006 JavaOne event, a certain company by the name of Google (they're very big in the search market, apparently) caused quite a buzz with the shock announcement of a new open source API for developing Ajax-heavy web applications. GWT--Google Web Too
The Google Web Tookit (GWT) is a cutting-edge UI framework for Java developers, which lets you create rich, interactive user interfaces using familiar idioms from Java's Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing, and the Eclipse Foundation's SWT. If you've use
The Google Web Toolkit provides the FormPanel and FileUpload classes to handle form and files submission in a rather elegant way. However, the way it works is not that straightforward when reading the API documentation. Worse, I did not find that many res
Ajax4Jmx is the first open source (correct me if I am wrong) ajax enabled framework for building customized user interfaces for JMX. It is implemented with GWT, Google's Widget Toolkit.
This widget displays a stack of images that you can flick through like a rolodex or a card deck. It uses gwt's deferred binding for the image generation and lightweight animation to create a fast and smooth experience in all supported browsers. Check out
First I must admit that I don't buy GWT's approach. There is a reason why we don't write HTML code from servlets anymore. Programmers usually are bad UI designers (look at my website for something to back my claim ;-) and great UI designers usually don't