3.11. Summary
This has been quite a hike through GWT, and you should now have an understanding of the key parts of the client side. You’ve seen how to use widgets and panels and how to add those to the browser page. We covered layout panels, which we’re sure will become a larger part of GWT going forward, particularly as we head to a world where standards mode in browsers is more common. We looked at wiring up events so that the user can interact with your application, and we showed how to handle the user clicking the Forward and Back buttons on the browser and getting expected behavior.
We were a little over the top with the use of various techniques in our discussion. Typically, a GWT application won’t use every one of the approaches to styling ...
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