Chapter 6. Server Integration
As mentioned in the previous chapter, a web application without any persistent data is really just a static web site. Therefore, we want to introduce you to the ways the Google Web Toolkit can support communication between the client-side browser and the server. Using different methods, we'll show you how the sample application can be extended to support a server-side data provider.
For a developer, the easiest way to implement the communication between a client and a server is to develop as if there were no separation. And with today's communication frameworks, the reality comes pretty close. The details of communicating a message between client and server and vice versa can be abstracted away by frameworks, so you ...
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