Thursday, June 01, 2006
Taking Google's "red pill"
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Greetings.
Lots of projects don't live up to self-consciously "cool" code names, but
Google's "red pill" just might do so. Now known as the "Google Web
Toolkit," this remarkable development kit lets you code Ajax sites in
Java--it takes care of the JavaScript, the browser compatibility, and all
of the other ugly problems for you. It even gives you a way to make
RPC-like calls back to your servlet. For the server-side Java developer
who wants to add Ajax functionality without learning a whole new skillset,
this could be a real breakthrough. We're happy to be able to offer an
introductory tutorial on this week's ONJava.
"The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) was rolled out for JavaOne 2006 at an
innocuously titled session. Due to what I assume was a timing
miscommunication, the Google Blog scooped the presentation, but the impact
was no less felt." With that understatement, Robert Cooper kicks off his
introduction to the project that was THE talk of JavaOne, in "Working with
the Google Web Toolkit." His introduction shows you how to build an Ajax
table with GWT, wire it up to a server-side data source, and handle user
interaction on the client side.
<http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/05/31/working-with-google-web-toolkit.html>
Offering another Java-friendly approach to Ajax, this week's feature
article from java.net takes a look at "Using Dojo and JSON to Build Ajax
Applications." Zarar Siddiqi writes, "In this article, I will show how to
build Ajax-enabled applications using Dojo and JSON--two very different
but complementary technologies that can significantly enhance the
interface and usability of web applications."
<http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2006/04/27/building-ajax-with-dojo-and-json.html>
Need to parse XML in your Java application? In a dev2dev article, Jacob
Danner and Raj Alagumalai take a look at XMLBeans 2.0 in "XMLBeans 2.0: A
Java Developer's Perspective." "XMLBeans is a
100-percent-schema-compliant, XML-Java binding tool you can use to access
the full power of XML in a Java-friendly way. The XMLBean solution is
unique because it provides a dual view of the XML data. XMLBeans maintain
the original XML document with no change in information and structure, and
also provide a Java-based view of the XML data."
<http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2006/05/xmlbeans-2.html>
Recent O'Reilly Network weblogs of interest to Java developers:
Robert Cooper: "On The 'Web 2.0' Flap"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/06/on_the_web_20_flap_1.html>
Steve Anglin: "SpringOne 2006 in Two Weeks"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/springone_2006_in_2_weeks.html>
Amir Shevat: "Still Waiting for True Interoperability"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/still_waiting_for_true_interop.html>
Dejan Bosanac: "XAP Proposal in Apache Incubator"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/xap_proposal_in_apache_incubat.html>
Paul Browne: "Is O'Reilly One of the Good Guys? Maybe."
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/is_oreilly_one_of_the_good_guy.html>
Steve Anglin: "JBoss World 2006 is Coming"
<http://www.oreillynet.com/onjava/blog/2006/05/jboss_world_2006_is_coming.html>
Check out more O'Reilly Network Java weblogs at:
<http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/weblog_s?x-subject=3&>
Please join us again next week.
Chris Adamson, Editor
ONJava.com
cadamson@oreilly.com
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