GWT in Action, Second Edition

3.1. Reexamining the example application

Figure 3.1 highlights how you’ll be implementing the mock-up. You’ll use GWT widgets and panels to insert a logo as an Image widget into a predefined location in the application’s HTML file, via a panel called RootPanel. That logo could be put in the HTML file directly, but we want to show a principle of GWT, and this is a simple way to do that.

Figure 3.1. Mock-up of chapter 3’s main example application showing the layout in the browser window and which widgets and panels you’ll use

You’ll construct the tab area using a couple of GWT panels. The GWT TabLayout-Panel lets you look at three GWT concepts. ...