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Adrian Buerki's Getting started with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT-01-02)

CODE: GWT-01-02 DURATION: 2 DAY/S

This 2 day course on getting started with the Google Web Toolkit will teach you how to create Rich Internet Applications using GWT.
The course is designed to get you going as quickly as possible. It starts with a brief introduction to the world of GWT. Then the course dives into a step by step project to explain every aspect of GWT, from a first impression of how it feels to work with GWT, to more advanced things like building custom components, styling and client server communication.

On completing Adrian Buerki's Getting started with the Google Web Toolkit course, you will know everything you need to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications with the latest GWT 2.1 technologies.

LEARN HOW TO:

Setup the development environment and project structure
Create web applications using standard GWT components (so called widgets) and layouts
Build complex custom components, to easy reuse
Style your web application using CSS
Handle communicate between client and server using GWT standard functionality
Make your applications secure

PROGRAMME

Day 1

An introduction to the world of GWT

The idea behind GWT
What GWT contains and is
The compiler and what it does

Get your IDE ready to go

What do you need to get started
Installation and set up of your favourite IDE
Where are the tools and what do they do

Let's write some code

Walk through the creation of a project
Run, debug and deploy your application
Have a look a the most common GWT widgets
Learn how to layout stuff
Use the default styles that come with GWT

Beyond the text box

Sophisticated components like trees and disclosure panels
Dialogs and Popups

Day 2

Make it even nicer

Creating custom components (so called composites)
Styling
Effects

Click it

Event handling
Focus handling

Ask the server

Use GWT's standard Remote Procedure Call
A quick look at the other options (XML/JSON)
Handling exceptions
Security considerations

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Adrian is an early adopter of GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and project owner of a GWT add-on library. He has been giving talks on various GWT related topics at different Java conferences.
More about Adrian Buerki

IS THIS COURSE FOR YOU?

If you have some basic knowledge of – or better still programming experience with – Java, HTML, and CSS then this Getting started with the Google Web Toolkit course is for you.

COURSE PREREQUISITES

These are the things you need to know before writing a web application with GWT:

Java basics such as data types, classes and programming concepts
An understanding of HTML and how it interacts with CSS
How to diagnose exceptions and how to debug Java code
Some knowledge of JavaScript and how Ajax works won't hurt either

You should already have basic web development knowledge and know about application server concepts.

COURSE LABS & EXERCISES

During the course we are going to develop a real web application. Our goal is to create a sticky notes application which can be used to save and manage all kind of notes.