Chapter 11. Examining client-side RPC architecture

This chapter covers

  • Patterns for simplifying GWT-RPC code

  • Server polling techniques

  • Emulating server-push data communication

  • Custom GWT-RPC field serializers

In chapter 10, you began building a component called the Server Status component. The purpose of this example component is to present information about the Java Virtual Machine running on the server, including vitals such as memory and threads. During the course of that chapter, we took a deep look at how to use the GWT-RPC mechanism to solve the problem of sending data between the client and server.

When you finished that chapter, you had some code but not quite a finished component. It still needs polish. Some of the missing parts include structuring ...

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