Chapter 3. Advancing to your own application

This chapter covers

  • GWT module definition

  • Hosted-mode browsers

  • Compiling a GWT application

  • Running a GWT application

Generating the GWT default application is great, and if you follow the steps in the previous chapter time and time again, you’ll consistently get the default application. We doubt, though, that this is all you’ll use GWT for; it would be a pretty dull technology if that were all it did!

Stage 1 of the lifecycle is generally performed for all GWT applications. It isn’t wasted work, because it provides a solid foundation of files and directories that enables you to confidently build your own applications. However, going through the remaining stages in the lifecycle is the key. In this chapter, ...

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