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 …
One of the nicest things about working on an open source project is the atmosphere of community collaboration and brainstorming that it fosters. The GWT engineering team has been listening hard to the community about how GWT can be improved, and we’re excited to take you on a tour of …
Google Web Toolkit is providing more and more information to developers in terms of how it is compiling your code, and how you can improve it. In this session, we will explain the tools available to you, how to interpret the results, and how you can guide this choose-your-own-adventure in …
Don’t throw away your Web 1.0 websites just yet. In this session, you’ll learn how to take your existing websites, and layer AJAX on top of them using GQuery, a jQuery style library for GWT. Learn how GQuery benefits performance over existing solutions, increases productivity, and reduces defects by leveraging …
Google Web Toolkit provides the infrastructure you need to build a high performance web application and leaves the architecture open to fit your needs. Learn from others who have gone before. In this session we’ll discuss best practices that real web applications are using to achieve high performance event handling, …
This talk follows the Google Wave team’s experience building the Google Wave client using Google Web Toolkit (GWT). We’ll cover some recent advances in GWT which enabled Google Wave to look and feel like a desktop application with comparable performance. In addition, we will discuss the use of WebDriver (an …
