Category: <span>User Interface</span>

Measure in Milliseconds: Performance Tips for Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) allows developers to build highly optimized, fast AJAX applications. GWT allows developers to code in the Java programming language using their favorite IDE tools, then cross-compile that source into plain JavaScript to be served just like any other webpage script. We’ll take a look at some …

Voices That Matter: GWT – Architecture Best Practices

Ajax, taken to its logical extreme, is essentially a 1990’s-style client/server architecture: one that has a vast, decentralized, and unpredictable network directly in its critical path. (The Internet, we’re talking about you.) Application developers have to grapple with network failures, latency, asynchonicity, multi-session synchronization, scalability, failover, cross-site scripting, and server …

You call that full stack? First class JavaEE and JavaFX integration

With the official release of JavaFX Sun has recommitted itself to the hyper-competitive rich client UI market, competing directly against Silverlight & Adobe Air. JavaFX has one advantage over either of those technologies: synergy with JavaEE. This session will teach several techniques to tightly integrate JavaFX with JavaEE mainstays such …