Introduction to the Google Web Toolkit

Learn how to use the Google Web Toolkit to do everything from basic tasks to advanced ones such as RPC communication, history management, and packaging a production-ready application.

Web 2.0 and its technical counterpart, Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax), are gaining momentum thanks to applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. For Web applications, the main benefit of Ajax is a greatly improved user experience. Although JavaScript and DHTML—the technical foundations of Ajax—have been available for years, most programmers ignored them because they were difficult to master. Today, frameworks written in JavaScript, such as Dojo, can help you build Ajax applications, but you still need a good understanding of JavaScript in order to use them. Google offers another way to help Java developers create Ajax applications more productively. This new framework, called Google Web Toolkit (GWT), can be used efficiently with Oracle JDeveloper. GWT is freely available under the Apache License v. 2.0 at http://code.google.com/webtoolkit.

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