Google Night: Div'ing in to GWT

Abstract

GWT is a powerful toolkit for developing robust AJAX applications.  It has many tempting features:

• Swing UI development style
• a compiler to catch warnings and errors ahead of time
• a compiler that optimizes for both download speed and execution speed

• built-in RPC with wire-size optimization and support for POJOs (think AJAX over RMI)

• “Wow - that’s neat!  But I have a mature webapp already and its daunting to port it over from (STRUTS|JSF|JSP|…)”.
  The good news is GWT can be used piecemeal allowing you to integrate a small bit of new or replaced functionality in your existing webapp in an unobtrusive way.

We’ll cover what a GWT app looks like to a developer, including frontend (widgets and events), backend (RPC) with examples and end with a demo that takes an existing Struts app and adds a new feature using GWT. 

Bio

John Sirois - MTS - Senior Software Engineer  John Sirois  is a member of the Doclist Java backend team and is currently  working on Doclist  GData API enhancements.  He has recently converted a  web application  infrastructure from Echo2 to GWT and explored the dark corners on the path to a  production infrastructure.

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