Archive for the ‘GWT’ Category

Creating a custom GWT animation

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

GWT allows you to extend the animation class and create your own custom animations. I was reading this post earlier today and decided to take that code a little further and put it all together into a workable GWT project in Eclipse.

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Quickly learning how to use the Google Maps API with GWT 2

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Recently I took a look at the Google Maps API. Overall the Google Maps API is very well documented and I was pleased to see that they have also done the heavy lifting to integrate Google Maps with the Google Web Toolkit, or GWT. Today I’m going to expand on the sample code they provide and show you how to get everything setup and working – which is sometimes half the battle. We will then simply make the map pan from one location to another and put our markers and info windows in place.

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Google ports Quake 2 to GWT

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Apparently Google has just ported Quake 2 to GWT complete with multiplayer support via websockets.

Here is the official announcement.

GWT 2.0: Working with ClientBundle and ImageResource

Monday, March 29th, 2010

In the GWT showcase they demonstrate a grid being built and populated with some images. In GWT 2.0 they discuss how ClientBundles are now more efficient (go ahead and read that last link to see why). Today I’ll be rebuilding that grid showcase to use a ClientBundle with an ImageResource.

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Getting a GWT Chat app with Comet running in less than 3 minutes

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010

Assuming you have a fast Internet connection you should be able to get this web app up and running in less than three minutes. I’ll be using the excellent gwt-comet project by Richard Zschech.

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GWT 2.0: Using TabLayoutPanel with UiBinder

Monday, March 15th, 2010

The point to this article is to take a particular Widget, in this case the TabLayoutPanel and to create and show instance of it the old way (which is still supported) and then to show how to do the same but using UiBinder.

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Tutorial: Learning GWT 2.0 and RPC

Thursday, March 11th, 2010

Google Web Toolkit or more commonly known as “GWT” is a very powerful and simple way for developers to quickly design web applications that run on all major browsers and taking the pain away from some browsers’s quirks. Today we are going to talk through building a simple GWT RPC web app.

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Tutorial: Using UiBinder in Google Web Toolkit 2.0 (GWT)

Friday, March 5th, 2010

With the recent release of GWT 2.0 there was a lot of newly added functionality. In particular today I’m going to focus on UiBinder. From the GWT website they explain UiBinder as: “With UiBinder, GWT now allows you to create user interfaces declaratively in XML instead of having to assemble them programmatically”.

Today we will work through a simple UiBinder application.

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Very cool GWT application

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

When I see GWT web apps like this one, it seems like we are seeing a glimpse of the future and the way web apps will be built. This particular one uses the GwtPHP framework.

Tutorial: Get cross-site JSON via HTTP with GWT and the GWT Designer by Instantiations

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

This is the third tutorial that takes the GWT Team’s Getting Started Tutorial and modifies it to use Instantiations GWT Designer. If you haven’t already done the first and second tutorials in this series, now would be a good time. Also, make sure to read the “Get JSON via HTTP” section of the GWT tutorial.

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