GWT in Action, Second Edition

3.10. Building on your understanding

In chapter 2 we gave a couple of suggestions on how you could build on what we’d covered to that point. We’ll do the same for this chapter because it can be useful, although we’re sure by now you probably have lots of ideas yourself. To follow are our suggestions:

• Add some more named items in the HTML file (for example, divs or SPANs or a TD in a TABLE), and in the code find them and add some widgets of your choice.
• Add some more content to the HTML like the contact/products content, pull it into a new tab in the tab panel, and link it into the history handling.
• Add some content into the HTML and use the DOM methods to retrieve it in the application, put it into a Label, put that Label into a DialogBox ...