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What's New in GWT 2.0

An overview of the new features in GWT 2.0.

As skeptics turn into converts at Google, GWT is behind more high profile rich UIs such as Google Wave, Google Ad-sense, and Speed Tracer.

Wave and Speed Tracer were implemented with GWT. In version 2.0, which represents a major leap forward for Google Web Toolkit, GWT sports new features such as: include declarative UI definitions in HTML and CSS instead of pure Java code, code splitting, where you tell GWT to defer downloading JavaScript code until it's needed, and integration with Speed Tracer, which graphically shows your application's performance bottlenecks.

Come to this session to see why Google is increasingly betting some of their own future on GWT, which catapult this framework to the upper echelon of Ajax-based web application frameworks.


David Geary

About David Geary

David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java Swing was the best-selling Swing book, and is one of the best-selling Java books of all-time, and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.

David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and David is currently on the JSF 2 Expert Group, helping to vastly improve JSF in version 2.

Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and he has written questions for two of Sun's Certification Exams: Web Developer Certification and JavaServer Faces Certification. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to the Apache Shale project.

David has spoken at more than 100 NFJS symposiums since 2003, and he also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaOne, JavaPolis, and JAOO. David has taught at Java University for the past three years, and is a three-time JavaOne rock star.

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