Chapter 7. Communicating with GWT-RPC

 
This chapter covers
  • Using GWT-RPC to make remote calls
  • Debugging communication between client and server
  • Protecting against XSRF attacks

 

At this point in the book you’ve learned the basics of creating a GWT application, allowing you to do some great stuff in the browser. The next step will be learning to communicate with the outside world. GWT offers several tools for this, including HTML forms (chapter 12), RequestBuilder (chapter 12), RequestFactory (chapter 8), and GWT-RPC. HTML forms are exactly as the name implies, and Request-Builder is your typical Ajax solution. But the next two, RequestFactory and GWT-RPC, are special in the sense that they allow you to send Java objects between ...

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