GWT Review

• Unplanned consequences
• Exploring the toolkit
• Setting up the development environment

Enhancing a GWT Application

• Updating the HTML
• Enhancing the code
• Creating the user interface
• Manipulating the page
• Handling events
• Managing history
• Styling components
• Securing the application

Creating Widgets

• What is a widget?
• Creating a new widget from the DOM
• Extending an existing widget
• Extending a panel
• Creating a composite
• Using layout panels
• Applying animation to widgets
• Exploring the lifecycle of a widget

Using Client Bundles

• Client bundle basics using DataResources
• Text resource types
• ImageResource
• CssResource

Interface Design with UiBinder

• Binding the designer?s HTML to Java code
• Handling events with UiBinder
• Introducing the UiBinder expression language
• Applying style with UiBinder
• Using the Eclipse plug-in with UiBinder

Communicating with GWT-RPC

• Surveying GWT-RPC
• Learning GWT-RPC with Twitter
• Fetching data from Twitter the non-GWT way
• Defining a GWT-RPC-compatible model
• Building and deploying the server side
• Writing the client
• Debugging GWT-RPC
• Securing GWT-RPC against XSRF attacks

Using RequestFactory

• Enabling annotation processing
• Understanding RequestFactory architecture
• Making calls to the server
• Using custom Locators and ServiceLocators

The Editor Framework

• Framework and editor overview
• Editor types
• Constructing an editor
• Binding an editor with drivers
• Editor subinterfaces
• Accessing the RequestContext
• Alternate way to construct an editor
• Adapters

Data-presentation (cell) Widgets

• Understanding cells
• Creating custom cells
• Reviewing GWT?s cell widgets
• Looking at a CellList
• Walking through a CellTree
• Browsing a CellBrowser
• Constructing a CellTable
• Building a DataGrid

Using JSNI-JavaScript Native Interface

• What is JSNI?
• When to use JavaScript Native Interface
• Benefiting from the Google Plugin for Eclipse
• Interacting with the browser
• Handling objects from JavaScript
• Wrapping a third-party library
• Exposing an API to JavaScript

Classic Ajax and HTML Forms

• Understanding the underlying technology
• Using RequestBuilder
• Posting data with RequestBuilder
• Using the JSON API and JsonpRequestBuilder
• Using JSON with JS overlay
• Using the XML API and RequestBuilder
• Using FormPanel

Advanced Event Handling and Event Busses

• Understanding events
• How GWT manages events
• Previewing and canceling events
• Preventing default actions
• Programmatically firing events
• Creating events
• Event busses

Building MVP-based Applications

• What is MVP?
• Looking at the PhotoApp?s MVP foundations
• Building MVP
• Altering an MVP application
• Activity and Place (GWT?s reference MVP approach)
• Fitting editors/data-presentation widgets into MVP