AAJUG Meeting on GWT by Davis Ford
February 18, 2010 in events
AAJUG General Meeting Announcemnt
Please join us at the Ann Arbor Java Users Group as Davis Ford speaks to us on:
The GWT:
Date: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Time: 7:00PM – 9:00PM EST
The room will be open at 6:30 PM.
We will have giveaways such as T-Shirts, Pens, etc.
Please reply to rsvp@data-masters.com if you plan to attend!
Meeting Location:
Washtenaw Community College, WCC BE 250
http://www.wccnet.org/search/roomlocator/index.php?room=BE250&bego=Go
PRESENTATION:
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Your next webapp may have to be a slick RIA site. You could use Flex and require the flash runtime. You could use Silverlight and require the sliverlight runtime. You could use JavaScript but if youre a Java shop, are you also an expert in JavaScript, and do you understand well all the browser quirks between IE 6, 7, 8, 9, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari, etc.? You could use a JavaScript library like JQuery or you could re-use all your Java knowledge and write your UI in a Swing-like Java API and have Google cross-compile it down to JavaScript that works in all browsers for you. You get the advantage of staying in one language, and all the tools it provides: IDE re-factoring, debugging, testing, etc. You can also share common code between the client and server — assuming you build your backend in Java.
GWT is a powerful tool, but there is a learning curve. This session aims to shorten that learning curve and provide you with some up-to-date examples of best practices and patterns that have emerged from the community of GWT developers.
Presenter BIO:
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Davis Ford has been an independent software consultant for the last 4 years helping local, national and international companies get software built better, faster and cheaper. Prior to that he was the principle architect for the next generation telematics platform at a major automotive OEM. Before that he cut his teeth at various Silicon Valley startups. He holds an M.S. in computer science, and enjoys all things computer science-y. You can reach him at http://www.zenoconsulting.biz
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