Developing with Ext GWT: Enterprise RIA Development [Paperback]

Developing in Ext GWT is a fastpaced, practical guide to quickly learning the tasks necessary in building enterpriseclass 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 clientserver 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 industryproven tools.
• Full coverage of the new Ext GWT 2.0 widget library based on GWT 1.6
• Designed for professional developers needing a quick, nononsense overview of the initial requirements to get started, ending with an example clientserver 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  lets 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.From the makers of the highly successful ló-