GWT Background Study For Project help!

Question

I am currently doing a project on GWT and in the background study, I need to perform research on GWT. I have included many things which I will list below. Can anyone point out something that I may be missing or what other interesting thing concerning GWT I can include? The following is a list of all the topics that are currently included:

• GWT Java to JavaScript Compiler

• Deferred Binding

• JSNI (JavaScript Native Interface)

• JRE Emulation Library

• GWT-I18N (Internationalization and Configuration tools)

• GWT’s XMLParser

• Widgets and Panels

• Custom Composite Widget

• Event and Listeners

• Styling through CSS

• GWT History Management

• GWT Hibernate Integration (through GLead)

• MVP (Model-View-Presenter) for GWT through Model View Presenter Application Controller and Event Bus

• Server Calls using RPC and request builder

• Comet

• Serialization in GWT
  JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

• Testing Web Application with GWT
  JUnit Benchmarking Selenium

• Further work in GWT such as Ext-GWT and smart GWT

Answer 1

Here my additions may be helpful to you

• GWT Logging

• Editors

• Speed Tracer

• RequestFactory

• GWT animation

• Formatter (NumberFormat, DateFormat)

  one of the most important things

• GWT <-> GAE(Google App Engine)

  and last (you forgot)

• GWT modules :)

Answer 2

If you are planning to use Spring , on server side, you should consider gwt-spring integration.

although, gwt designers do not provide reflection and recommend not to use the reflection, using reflection is inevitable, and if you use carefully, its cost is bearable..

Answer 3

You may want to take a look into UiBinder and RequestFactory as well as some of the development and testing tools such as GWT Designer and Speed Tracer.

Answer 4

I am not sure if it is implicitly included in one of the points you listed but :

Client Bundle

The resources in a deployed GWT application can be roughly categorized into resources to never cache (.nocache.js), to cache forever (.cache.html), and everything else (myapp.css). The ClientBundle interface moves entries from the everything-else category into the cache-forever category.