Agile Ajax

GWT Conference: David Geary’s Cool and Useful Stuff

Dietrich Kappe, Wednesday, December 5, 2007 @ 2:25 pm

David Geary is a prolific author and experience speaker. In a sense, this was a mini preview of his book, Google Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff, which I will be reviewing in the upcoming weeks. His presentation went through building a custom widget, implementing drag and drop, and viewports (like google maps). You can see the demo apps and download the code from the books demo site.

Some David Geary quotes:

"AWT was developed by a handful of people in six weeks. And for those of you who have used AWT you probably believe that."

"The reason why they could develop AWT so quickly was because it used peers. GWT uses peers, namely DOM elements."

"DOM has more than 80 public methods. When I wrote that a few weeks ago, it actually had 83 methods. Knowing how hard it is to remove methods from a public API, I feel comfortable saying that."

"GWT doesn't itself support drag-and-drop, but you can do it yourself, and it is ridiculously easy."

"My answer to everything is addStyleName

"We went through the Struts filter. We went from building cool web applications with drag-and-drop to writing boring ass web applications that battered users over the head with one form after another. Now, with GWT, we are back to writing cool applications for the web."

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Comments: 2 so far

  1. I think the last quote should be “…We went from building cool [desktop] applications with drag-and-drop…” instead of “We went from building cool [web] applications with drag-and-drop…”.

    Thanks for covering the conference which I wasn’t able to attend.

    Comment by El Mentecato Mayor, Wednesday, December 12, 2007 @ 3:00 pm

  2. I checked http://coolandusefulgwt.com/. The site has really wonderful GWT examples.

    The integration of Website template and GWTApp also amazed me. I am interested to know how you program this. Are you using JSF or its just through JSNI?

    Thanks,
    vivek.singhwal@gmail.com

    Comment by Vivek, Saturday, July 12, 2008 @ 10:08 am

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