The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has attracted a lot of attention lately as a way to make it easier for developers to add AJAX Web 2.0 features to their applications. Like other approaches, the designers of GWT have tried to insulate developers from having to deal with the underlying JavaScript, which implements these features. GWT achieves this goal of simplifying the creation of advanced client-side JavaScript widgets by generating them from Java code.
Once you’re through with this article, there’s a followup that shows how to also make them clickable. Many people find the object-oriented aspect of JavaScript to be very confusing. Fortunately, the designers of the Google Maps API have managed to ma
Googlipse Friday, July 14th, 2006, 23:22:20 +0200, Gunnar Wagenknecht Did you ever hear about GWT - the Google Web Toolkit? It’s a nice way of writing Ajax Web Clients in Java which run as JavaScript in the browser. Googlipse is an Eclipse plug-in that
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
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