Chapter 6. Integrating Legacy and Third-Party Ajax Libraries
This chapter covers
- Working with the JavaScript Native Interface
- Creating JSNI Wrappers
- Dealing with JavaScript eventing models
- Working with the JSIO project
Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.
Ralph Johnson
Although we believe GWT represents a superior environment for developing Ajax applications, sometimes the functionality you want to reuse is in existing JavaScript libraries. These might be your own legacy code or third-party libraries. Additionally, there may be times when you want to directly tweak aspects of your GWT application with JavaScript. To perform either of these tasks, you need to use JSNI.
We introduced JSNI in chapter 1 and used it ...
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