Writing a Google App - The Google Web Toolkit
Start: Oct 10, 2:15 p.m.
End: Oct 10, 3:15 p.m.
Location: 108 (map)

Everyone wants to hop onto the Web 2.0 bandwagon, but who in their right mind wants to spend hours trying to figure out the funny quirks of the many browsers out there? Google has already managed to write some amazing AJAX-based applications, and they have opened up their toolkit so you can write your own Web 2.0 app! The Google Web Toolkit provides the necessary tools to create that fancy-looking web application quickly. It solves your browser differences by allowing you to work in a common language - Java. It will actually compile your Java application into all the Javascript you don't want to deal with. And coupled with the Eclipse editor, you can write, compile, test and debug all from the comfort of one IDE.

This course will go through the steps of creating a web application in the Google Web Toolkit. The application will interact with a XML-based service that presents data from a database. Attendees will come away with an understanding of the GWT architecture and should be able to create their own GWT application.