Developing with Ext GWT Enterprise RIA Development

Developing in Ext GWT is a fast–paced, practical guide to quickly learning the tasks necessary in building enterprise–class rich Internet applications (RIAs). Based around the exciting new user interface library from Ajax leaders Ext JS and the latest Google Web Toolkit release, this book takes the reader through setup, the available widgets, and advanced custom widgets and templates, and concludes with a functional sample client–server application in less than 150 pages. Not your typical beginner's guide to programming, this book provides a rapid approach to becoming effective with leading commercial RIA tools and libraries.

• A practical approach to enterprise RIA development using industry–proven tools.
• Full coverage of the new Ext GWT 2.0 widget library based on GWT 1.6
• Designed for professional developers needing a quick, no–nonsense overview of the initial requirements to get started, ending with an example client–server application

Ch1 – An Introduction. The history of ExtGWT. Java, GWT & What you need to know. The Basic Ingredients. Ch2 – Organizing the Environment. Setting up Eclipse. Building for Deployment with ANT. Ch3 – Widgets, Widgets, Everywhere. The Complete Ext-ended Family. .widget. .widget.button. .widget.custom. .widget.form. .widget.grid. .widget.layout. .widget.menu. .widget.selection. .widget.table. .widget.tips. .widget.toolbar. .widget.tree. .widget.treetable. Themes – let’s make it pretty. Advanced Stuff – ext.templates. Ch4 – Communicating Abroad. Data Models. RPC, XML or JSON? Ch5 – A Working Example. Custom Widget – The Wizard. An Application Pattern – MVC. The “Issue Tracking” Application.

Grant Slender is a seasoned Java developer with more than 20 years of IT experience working with and for global software organizations, IT outsourcers, and several financial institutions.