GWT Training

Workshop Length

Objective

Description

Prerequisites

Pricing

For private, dedicated workshops see our price page. For public, open-enrollment workshops, see the table to the right.

Topics

• Overview
  • What is GWT?
  • GWT compiler
  • GWT emulator (hosted mode)
  • GWT compared to other web frameworks
  • GWT compared to other AJAX frameworks
  • Pros and cons of GWT
• Understanding Modules
  • What is a module?
  • Recommended module structure
  • Custom module structure
  • Adapting GWT into an existing web app structure
  • Inheriting modules
• GWT widget library
  • Basic widgets
    • Label
    • Button
    • TextBox
    • Hyperlink
  • Text widgets
    • Label
    • HTML
    • TextBox
    • Hidden
    • PasswordTextBox
    • TextArea
    • RichTextArea
  • Simple Layouts
    • VerticalPanel
    • HorizontalPanel
    • FlowPanel
    • DockPanel
  • More Layout Panels
    • TabPanel
    • StackPanel (Accordion)
    • SplitPanel
    • DeckPanel
  • Tables and trees
    • Grid
    • FlexTable
    • Tree
  • Lists and checkboxes
    • ListBox
    • RadioButton
    • CheckBox
    • SuggestBox
  • Popups, dialogs and menus
    • PopupPanel
    • DisclosurePanel
    • DialogBox
    • Menu
    • DecoratorPanel
  • Other Panels
    • ScrollPanel
    • HTMLPanel
    • AbsolutePanel
    • FocusPanel
• Event Handling
  • Understanding Listeners
  • Mouse Events
  • Key Events
  • Click Events
  • Other Events
• Images
  • Image Widget
  • Prefetching Image
  • Bundling Images
• Connecting to Data and Back-end Services
  • AJAX Overview
    • Connectivity options
    • Asynchronous callbacks
    • The RequestBuilder class
    • Performance issues
  • GWT RPC
    • Remote and Async Interfaces
    • Servlet Implementation
    • Asynchronous Callbacks
    • Exception Handling
    • GWT Serialization
  • Invoking XML Web Services
  • Invoking JSON Services
• Creating Web-friendly applications
  • Creating bookmarkable pages
  • History and the back button
• Performance Concerns
  • Cache versus nocache
  • Cross-Product Compilation
  • Image Bundling
  • Lazy-loading widgets
  • Pre-fetching
  • Obfuscation
• Miscellaneous API's
  • Cookies
  • Timers
  • Random
  • Window and Location
  • The GWT class
• Creating Custom Widgets
  • Composites
  • From Scratch using Java
  • Using JavaScript
  • Calendar widget
  • DatePicker widget
• 3rd Party Widgets
  • MyGWT
  • Ext GWT
  • GWT Widget Library
  • GWT Drag and Drop
  • The GWT Incubator
• Google Gears
  • Occasionally connected apps
  • Local SQL
  • Local Documents
  • Background Processing
• JSNI
  • JavaScriptObject
  • Implement a Java native using JavaScript
  • Call from JavaScript into Java
  • Call from Java into JavaScript
  • Sharing Objects between Java and JavaScript
• Integrating with other technologies
  • GWT with JSP
  • GWT with JSF
  • GWT with Struts
  • Evolving legacy apps to GWT
• Miscellaneous
  • Debugging GWT applications
  • Security Issues
  • Image Bundles
  • Internationalization
  • MVC and Data Binding
  • 5 GWT Hidden Gems
  • 5 GWT Pitfalls
  • Unit testing GWT modules
  • GWT and CSS
• Advanced Topics
  • Deferred Binding: The Magic GWT.create()
  • Low-level event handling
  • Manipulating the DOM directly
  • Command,DeferredCommand, IncrementalCommand