11.6. Wrapping a third-party library
If you need to wrap a third-party JavaScript library, you’re probably in for some serious JSNI development. You’re going to have to wrap all of the objects that could be created as JavaScriptObjects or as overlays; you’ll need to hook up event handling and duplicate, in GWT Java code structure, those API methods you wish to expose.
In this section we’ll do this with the Cooliris API.[3] You may be familiar with the wall of pictures that can be created, as shown in figure 11.13.
3 Cooliris API: www.cooliris.com/developer/.
Figure 11.13. A Cooliris photo wall embedded in a GWT application
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