2.10. Building on your understanding

Now that we’ve built a first application together, we suggest you spend a little time playing with what we’ve discussed before moving on. For example, you might try the following:

  • Get comfortable with running development mode. Try running this chapter’s simple application in several different browsers.
  • Get comfortable with compiling. Try the different output styles and see the differences.
  • If you’re brave and eager to get ahead, try adding some different widgets and panels to the RootPanel. We’ll discuss these more in the next chapter, but you can find a list of widgets online.[9] For example, you could write the following in the onModuleLoad method:

    9 List of GWT widgets: http://mng.bz/C6p1.

    RootPanel.get().add(new ...

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