Getting Started with Building a GWT Web Application

Name: Getting Started with Building a GWT Web Application
Rating: 3.9 (122 reviews)

Learn the basics to making a GWT application quickly and easily.

Created byBrandon Donnelson

Last updated 2/2017

English

What you'll learn

Understand the pieces that make up GWT Application development
Understand how debug the GWT Application with Eclipse
Understand how to use Super Dev Mode with Eclipse
Understand how to create a GWT Application
Understand how to work with GWT UI components
Understand how to work with logical GWT and native browser events.
Understand how to configure remote ajax RPC calls
Understand how to use CSS and image resrouces

Course content

8 sections • 19 lectures • 2h 52m total length

Introduction0:54
Welcome to the course. This is a quick overview of what is to come.

Installing Eclipse5:04
This will cover:

Java is Required

Downloading eclipse

Unzipping Eclipse

Running Eclipse

Using a clean workspace directory for the applications
Installing the Eclipse GWT Plugin6:16
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Installing the GWT Plugin

Installing SDBG for breakpoints
Eclipse IDE Overview16:38
This will cover:

Eclipse Perspectives and Views

GWT Global Preferences

GWT Project Preferences

GWT Project Overview

And More on Eclipse
Download GWT 2.83:52
This will cover:

Downloading GWT 2.8 for this course.

GWT Widget creating options3:14
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GWT Widget creation options.

Using widgets to create an application.
Extending a pre-existing widget8:57
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Extending the pre-existing GWT widget FlowPanel.
Creating a Composite GWT widget3:45
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Creating a Composite GWT widget.
Creating a Resize Composite Widget8:23
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Creating a Resize Composite widget.

Using the RootLayoutPanel.
Creating a GWT IsWidget3:26
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Creating a GWT IsWidget.
Creating and using a GWT Cell6:58
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Creating and using a Cell List with a Cell.
Creating a widget and using UiBinder8:09

Requirements

You should be familiar with Javascript.
You should be familiar with CSS.
You should be familiar with Java.
You should be familiar with HTML.

Description

I’m Brandon Donnelson and I’ve been working on GWT a while since somewhere around 2008. I enjoy helping make development easier. So the other day someone said they wanted to see more getting started video content so I started out with this course.

This course covers the basic GWT application development by video example. It starts out with Eclipse GWT application creating and debugging. Then moves into UI component creation, event handling and ajax calls. And finishes off with providing css styling and images for the UI.

If you’re new to GWT, I think this would help build up quick terminology and context around building an application using GWT.

Who this course is for:

This course is suited for those beginning to learn GWT.

Getting Started with Building a GWT Web Application

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Course content

Introduction1 lecture • 1min

Working with the IDE4 lectures • 32min

Creating a GWT Application1 lecture • 9min

Debugging the Application2 lectures • 24min

Working with the UI7 lectures • 43min

Working with Events2 lectures • 27min

Working with Ajax Data Transport1 lecture • 18min

Working with Styling1 lecture • 20min

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