Chapter 6. Interface design with UiBinder

 

This chapter covers
  • Creating templates using markup instead of Java code
  • Binding templates to Java
  • Handling events
  • Adding style to templates

 

Let’s face facts: programmers aren’t usually good designers. It all comes down to specialization. Whereas some of us specialize in application development, others specialize in making those applications look great.

When you look at traditional web frameworks, there’s always some sort of template tool that bridges the gap between developer and designer. The most common of these for Java frameworks is Java Server Pages (JSP), which allows you to mix the HTML a designer develops with data a developer provides. UiBinder is GWT’s designer-developer ...

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