InfoQ

InfoQ

News

My Bookmarks

Login or Register to enable bookmarks for unlimited time.

The content has been bookmarked!

There was an error bookmarking this content! Please retry.

Google Web Toolkit Continues Gaining Momentum

Posted by Scott Delap on Jul 14, 2006

Sections
Development
Topics
Rich Internet Apps ,
Java
Tags
GWT ,
AJAX
XML.com recently featured an introduction to web application development using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). GWT was released at JavaOne in May of this year, and  IBM DeveloperWorks also posted one the week before.  Currently GWT fully supports development on Windows and Linux with hosted mode OS X support promised in the future.

GWT allows the creation of Ajax web applications using only Java code. In hosted development mode your GWT appliction code continues to run as Java inside the JVM. This allows developers to leverage their existing IDE's for functionality like profiling and debugging. At deployment time GWT project code is compiled into Javascript form and ready to run in a browser. UI development features a Swing like widget API which is event driven. GWT also adds an RPC layer that shields developers form the complexities of using the XMLHttpRequest object.

GWT has been gaining support in the Java community since its release. Sites are already appearing featuring integration with third-party Javascript API's such as Script.aculo.us. Support of GWT has also been announced for IntelliJ and for Netbeans

A better GWT project ... by John Reynolds Posted
Re: A better GWT project ... by Floyd Marinescu Posted
  1. Back to top

    A better GWT project ...

    by John Reynolds

    You should really point readers to the GWT Widget Library on sourceforge: gwt-widget.sourceforge.net . The link above only has 9 components, and hasn't had anything new in many weeks! The GWT Widget Lib has over 50 classes! Nobody paid me to say this =)
    John Reynolds
    www.twofeetthick.com/jr

  2. Back to top

    Re: A better GWT project ...

    by Floyd Marinescu

    John - thanks for the pointer! :)

Educational Content

New-age Transactional Systems - Not Your Grandpa's OLTP

John Hugg discusses high volume transaction processing applications with high and low frequency profiles, and how VoltDB can be used for that purpose.

Cool Code

Kevlin Henney examines code samples to see what can be learned from them starting from the premise that one won’t write great code unless he knows how to read it.

Collaboration: At the Extremities of Extreme

Jason Ayers share the observations he made watching a team of developers collaborating in real time on the same code base, pushing XP, pair programming and continuous integration to their extremes.

Yesod Web Framework

Michael Snoyman presents Yesod, a web framework written in Haskell and containing a web server, templating, ORM, libraries (templating, gravatar, etc.).

Transactions without Transactions

Richard Kreuter and Kyle Banker on how to avoid classical RDBMS transactional systems by using compensation mechanisms, transactional messaging or transactional procedures.

Attila Szegedi on JVM and GC Performance Tuning at Twitter

Attila Szegedi talks about performance tuning Java and Scala programs at Twitter: how to approach GC problems, the importance of asynchronous I/O, when to use MySQL/Cassandra/Redis, and much more.

10 tips on how to prevent business value risk

One category of risk that project teams need to ensure they address is business value failure – delivering a product that fails to provide value for the business investor.

Interview: Software Systems Architecture: Working With Stakeholders Using Viewpoints and Perspectives

InfoQ spoke to the authors of Software Systems Architecture on a couple of new topics, the System Context viewpoint and Agile, which have been added to the second edition.