7.9. Summary

In the last few dozen pages we showed you everything you need to know about GWT-RPC, but it was a long journey. You might be asking how this helps you simplify your GWT applications over other remoting methods. We could take a mother’s approach and say that you should take your medicine because it’s good for you. But we’re all big boys and girls now and can make our own decisions.

The biggest benefit of using GWT is that you can use Java objects throughout, sharing data objects on both the client and server and reducing the code you need to write because all the serialization is handled for you. But you will pay a price for less code, and it’s in complexity. In order for GWT to generate the serialization code for you, it needs ...

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