7.1. Surveying GWT-RPC
As they say, the devil is in the details, and this holds true for GWT-RPC. But before we get to those, we want to provide a broad overview of how GWT-RPC works and the classes involved. This includes surveying the parts of GWT-RPC that are provided and the parts you’ll need to write.
The parts that you’ll need to write include your server-side business logic, the service interface, and potentially custom data objects that will hold the data that’s passed between the client and server. The provided parts include everything else, namely the code that glues the client and the server together. Much of this glue code is generated at compile time and is unseen by the developer.
At its core GWT-RPC is a way to have the GWT ...
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