Chapter 2. Introducing Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

As we saw in the previous chapter, there's a real need to build more interactive, user-friendly web-based applications. We've introduced these rich Internet applications (RIA) and have shown you different approaches to developing them. From the available alternatives, we've concluded that GWT fits our needs best.

This chapter will introduce GWT and explain why we think GWT is the best choice, detail the basics of GWT, and show you the typical way you'll work with it. The chapter will also introduce the sample application that we'll build throughout the remainder of this book. Last, the chapter will introduce development tools that will come in handy when you start developing applications using GWT. ...

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