<p>GWT Ajax Programming shows you how to create reliable user interfaces that enhance the user experience.<br /><br />GWT is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.<br /><br />GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.</p> <h3>Chapter-by-Chapter</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 1</span> introduces GWT, the download and installation of GWT, and running its sample application.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 2</span> deals with the creation of a new GWT application from scratch, and using the Eclipse IDE with GWT projects, creating a new AJAX Random Quotes application, and running this new application.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 3</span> deals with an introduction to and overview of GWT asynchronous services, and creating a prime number service and geocoder service.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 4</span> deals with using GWT to build simple interactive user interfaces. The samples included in this chapter are live search, auto fillable forms, sortable tables, dynamic lists, and a flickr-style editable lable.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 5</span> introduces some of the more advanced features of GWT to build more complex user interfaces. The samples included in this chapter are pageable tables, editable tree nodes, a simple log spy, sticky notes, and a jigsaw puzzle.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 6</span> includes an introduction to JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI) and using it to wrap third-party JavaScript libraries like Moo.fx and Rico. it also includes using the gwt-widgets project and its support for the Script.aculo.us effects.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 7</span> deals with creating custom GWT widgets. The samples included in this chapter are a calendar widget and a weather widget.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 8</span> concerns itself with creating and running unit tests for GWT services and applications.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 9</span> sees us using Internationalization (I18N) and client-side XML support in GWT.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Chapter 10</span> includes the deployment of GWT applications using both Ant and Eclipse.</p>