Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit GWT Training Course
Introducing Ajax

•  Life Before Ajax
•  What, Why and How of AJAX
•  Overview of XMLHttpRequest, DOM
•  Basic Ajax Techniques
•  JavaScript, CSS, JSON

The GWT Framework

•  Installing GWT
•  Your First GWT Application
•  Java - JavaScript Compiler
•   Integration with IDEs
•  Running and Debugging
•  Hosted Mode and Web Mode

Organizing GWT Projects

•   Directory and Package Layout
•  Libraries, Modules and XML Configuration
•  Entry Point Classes
•   Inheriting Modules
•  Including External Resources

GWT and Java

•  Anatomy of the GWT Compiler
•  Java Language and Library
•   Delayed Logic Classes
•  JSON and Overlay Types
•   JSNI - Calling JavaScript from Java
•  Deferred Binding

GWT User Interfaces

•  HTML and Entry Point
•  Standard GWT Widgets
•  GWT Panels
•  Creating new Panels
•  Layouts

Events and Handlers

•  Standard Browser Events
•   Handling Other Events Types
•  Drag and Drop

Advanced UI Topics

•  Creating Custom Widgets
•  Composite Widgets
•  Creating Composite Widgets
•  Internationalizing Strings
•  Locales and Property Files
•  Accessibility Support
•  Making Widgets Accessible
•  History Tokens and Bookmarks
•  The Back Button Override

Server Side Considerations

•  Making RPC calls
•  Creating Services
•  Synchronous and Asynchronous Interfaces
•  Handling and Throwing Exceptions
•  Debugging and Testing Services
•  Deploying on Application Servers, Google App Engine

 Comprehensive Google Web Toolkit Training Course Goals

•   Understand the challenges of Ajax programming and how GWT addresses them.
•   Learn about GWT infrastructure, projects and code artifacts.
•   Learn to use GWT widgets, panels, images, events, listeners to build Ajax forms.
•   Learn to use GWT Utility and framework classes.
•   Learn to incorporate history and bookmarks in your front-ends.
•   Learn about GWT's RPC protocol and how to use it.
•   Learn to create and use modules in GWT, own or external.
•   Learn to use advanced panels, more widgets, trees in GWT.
•   Learn to use RichTextArea for styled editing in GWT.
•   Learn to use CSS styling of GWT Widgets.
•   Learn to develop own composite widgets.
•   Learn to develop and execute tests and benchmarks in GWT.
•   Discover the GWT's Java Emulator, its capabilities and limitations.
•   Learn to use GWT's DOM management.
•   Learn to use JSON within GWT.
•   Learn to retrieve and show external URLs in GWT forms.
•   Learn the mechanics of integrating Javascript with Java.
•   Learn advanced connectivity mechanisms, polling and related concepts.
•   Learn some best practices on performance and avoiding pit falls.