Architecting GWT Applications for Production at Google

Published July 5th, 2010 Under Architecture, Open Source Tools, User Interface | Leave a Comment

For large GWT applications, there’s a lot you should think about early in the design of your project. GWT has a variety of technologies to help you, but putting it all together can be daunting. This session walks you through how teams at Google architect production-grade apps, from design to deployment, using GWT.

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Effective GWT: Developing a complex, high-performance app with Google Web Toolkit

Published December 31st, 2009 Under Coding, Open Source Tools, User Interface | Leave a Comment

In this session we’ll show how you can get the most out of GWT in development, testing and deployment. It’s based on our two and half years of experience building Lombardi Blueprint, a SaaS application for collaborative business process documentation. We’ll cover how you can effectively integrate GWT into your development process and how to structure your code and application to take advantage of GWT’s unique features in order to provide the best possible user experience. Focus: Achieving high performance, sharing code between client and server, building and testing your application, multi-page application architecture, tips and tricks.

Create Slick UIs for your Grails Apps with GWT

Published December 29th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, User Interface | Leave a Comment

GWT is a powerful toolkit from Google that enables you to create rich and dynamic user interfaces for the browser using Java. There’s no need to learn a new language (Javascript) and you can keep your existing Java IDE and tools.

http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/java-jee/create-slick-uis-for-your-grails-apps-with-gwt

Crawljax – A Tool for Automating Web Application Testing

Published December 22nd, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing, User Interface | Leave a Comment

Crawljax is a tool for crawling any AJAX/GWT application. It uses WebDriver to navigate through the different states of a web application. With plugins and invariants Crawljax can be used to perform various automated tests. For example: security testing, regression testing, accessibility testing, performance testing, cross-browser testing…

Measure in Milliseconds: Performance Tips for Google Web Toolkit

Published December 14th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing, User Interface | Leave a Comment

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) allows developers to build highly optimized, fast AJAX applications. GWT allows developers to code in the Java programming language using their favorite IDE tools, then cross-compile that source into plain JavaScript to be served just like any other webpage script. We’ll take a look at some performance techniques you can use in GWT to build even faster web apps.

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