Chapter 3. Building a GWT application: enhancing HelloWorld
This chapter covers
- Enhancing chapter 2’s output for the real world
- Using widgets, panels, and layout panels, and handling events
- Manipulating the Document Object Model (DOM)
- Managing history in a GWT application
In the last chapter, we went through the steps to generate a basic GWT application using the Google Plugin for Eclipse (GPE). The result was the framework of an application with a simple entry point whose onModuleLoad method displayed the text “Hello World!” on the browser page. It wasn’t the most exciting of applications, but it allowed us to examine the structure of a GWT application as well as run it in development mode and compile it for web mode—the basics ...
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