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Getting Started with Building a GWT Web Application
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Getting Started with Building a GWT Web Application

Learn the basics to making a GWT application quickly and easily.
3.6 (62 ratings)
Course Ratings are calculated from individual students’ ratings and a variety of other signals, like age of rating and reliability, to ensure that they reflect course quality fairly and accurately.
220 students enrolled
Created by Brandon Donnelson
Last updated 2/2017
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Getting Started with Building a GWT Web Application
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This course includes
  • 3 hours on-demand video
  • 4 downloadable resources
  • Full lifetime access
  • Access on mobile and TV
  • Certificate of Completion
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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
Expand all 19 lectures 02:52:33
+ – Introduction
1 lecture 00:54

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

Introduction
Preview 00:54
+ – Working with the IDE
4 lectures 31:50

This will cover:

  • Java is Required
  • Downloading eclipse
  • Unzipping Eclipse
  • Running Eclipse
  • Using a clean workspace directory for the applications
Installing Eclipse
Preview 05:04

This will cover:

  • Installing the GWT Plugin
  • Installing SDBG for breakpoints
Installing the Eclipse GWT Plugin
06:16

This will cover:

  • Eclipse Perspectives and Views
  • GWT Global Preferences
  • GWT Project Preferences
  • GWT Project Overview
  • And More on Eclipse

Eclipse IDE Overview
16:38

This will cover:

  • Downloading GWT 2.8 for this course.
Download GWT 2.8
03:52
+ – Creating a GWT Application
1 lecture 09:04

This will cover:

  • Using the application creation wizard to create a GWT application
  • This will also cover the application structure parts:
    • The client resources
    • The server resources
    • The client and server shared resources
    • The public application directory
    • The web application directory
Create an GWT application in Eclipse
09:04
+ – Debugging the Application
2 lectures 24:03

This will cover:

  • Launching Super Dev Mode
  • Launching Super Dev Mode with SDBG and using Break points

Starting the debugger - Part 1 of 2
Preview 13:42

This will cover:

  • Launching Classic Dev Mode
  • Using Break points with Classic Dev Mode
Starting the debugger - Part 2 of 2
10:21
+ – Working with the UI
7 lectures 42:52

This will cover:

  • GWT Widget creation options.
  • Using widgets to create an application.
GWT Widget creating options
03:14

This will cover:

  • Extending the pre-existing GWT widget FlowPanel.
Extending a pre-existing widget
08:57

This will cover:

  • Creating a Composite GWT widget.
Creating a Composite GWT widget
03:45

This will cover:

  • Creating a Resize Composite widget.
  • Using the RootLayoutPanel.
Creating a Resize Composite Widget
08:23

This will cover:

  • Creating a GWT IsWidget.
Creating a GWT IsWidget
03:26

This will cover:

  • Creating and using a Cell List with a Cell.
Creating and using a GWT Cell
06:58
Creating a widget and using UiBinder
08:09
+ – Working with Events
2 lectures 26:40
Working with DOM Events
10:24
Working with Logical Events
16:16
+ – Working with Styling
1 lecture 19:38
Working with CSS and Image Resources
19:38
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.