GWT Basics

Question : What is GWT ?
Answer : Google Web Tool Kit(GWT) is a open source Java Development Framework,
 use to develop Ajax(Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)  Web applications those looks
 like the desktop applications.


Question: What are the other Frameworks which can compete the GWT framework ?
Answer:  1) Ruby on rails
               2) JQuery.
               3) Flex.
               4) Echo2.


Question :  What are the advantages of GWT Framework ?
Answer:
1) True Interaction: with lots of code executed on client side, reduce server-side 
    interaction minimum.
2) Easy to Develop : Using Java Language.
3) Excellent IDE Support :  With Excellent Debugging Skills.
4) Easy Integration of JavaScript: using the JSNI(Javascript Native Interface) we can 
    easily integrate the Javascript, we can integrate easily whenever we required the 
    JavaScript in GWt.
5) Easy Integration with Hibernate.
6) Excellent News Group  facilities.
7) Widget Support : Ready to use excellent Widgets.
8) Easy Integration with Server : GWT enables to integrate with server written in any    
     language.
9) using Ajax framework : rich web application look using the AJAX framework.
10) Good webserver Support : GWT has java-to-javascript compiler which is to distill 
     your web application into HTML and Javascript that you can server with any webserver.
11) Great Browser Compatibility : using the above feature.
12) Debugging in Hosted Mode.


Question: Hurdles in GWT Framework ?
Answer:
1) Slow Compilation.
2) No Support for multi-core : Compilation Process does not support the multiple Cpu's.
3) inconvenient to use arbitrary HTML with GWT: solved by using the powerful CSS.


Question: What is Host Mode in GWT ?
Answer : This is enables you to run your GWT application as Java in JVM.without
compilling to Javascript to First.This is called Host mode.


Question: How hostmode is accomplished?
Answer : by using SWT browser(Standard Web Tool Kit) this has hooks into JVM.
When you run your application in hostmode, the browser which u see u'r application is
nothing but the SWT browser.


Question : What is Web Mode ?
Answer : You use the GWT compiler to compile your GWT applications to JavaScript. The application can then be deployed to a web container. This is referred to as running in web mode. When you click on the Compile/Browse button, the Java code for the KitchenSink project is compiled by the Java-to-JavaScript compiler into pure HTML and JavaScript.


Explain the four main Components of GWT?
Answer : 
               1) GWT java - javascript compiler.
               2) GWT hosted web browser.
               3) JRE emulation library.
               4) GWT web User interface Library.


1) GWT java - javascript compiler : 
      The Java code for the GWT application project is compiled by the Java-to-JavaScript 
      compiler into pure HTML and JavaScript.
2) GWT hosted web browser :
    This enables you to run and execute your GWT applications as Java in the Java Virtual   
     Machine (JVM) without compiling to JavaScript first.
3) JRE emulation library :
    This contains JavaScript implementations of most of the widely used classes of the     
     java.lang and java.util packages from the Java standard class library.
     of course free to use the entire Java class library for the server-side implementation. 
4) GWT Web UI class library: 
     This provides a set of custom interfaces and classes that enable you to create various 
     widgets such as buttons, text boxes, images, and text.


Question: What is Asynchronous server call and Synchronous server call ?
Answer : Synchronous : Wait until server responds with the reply.
                Asynchronous : Allow the page to continue to processed and process the reply 
                                             from server when it is arrived.
Question : is GWT server calls are synchronous or Asynchronous ?
Answer : Asynchronous.
Reason : Most browser java script engines are single threaded.
Question : is AJAX server calls are synchronous or Asynchronous?
Answer : Asynchronous.
Question: In GWT how to handle the server Response?
Answer : by Implementing the interface "AsyncCallback" interface.
if RPC is successful then onSuccess(Object) is called otherwise the in failure
 onFailure(Throwable) is called.
Question :Write an Example implementation of interface AysnCallback Interface?
Answer :
                     Shapes.getShapes(dbname,new AsyncCallback() {
                      public void onSuccess(Shapes[] result) {

                 //Process the result 

              }

               public void onFailure(Throwable caught) {

               try

                  { throw caught } catch(Excpetion e) { // }

Question: What is the latest Version of GWT ?
Answer : Version 2.1.

Question : Explain about GWT RPC ?
Answer: GWT provides simple, Asynchronous RPC and Object Serialization that allows client and server to talk.GWT includes a GWT RPC package for enabling communication with server resources.
That Package includes:
               1) Two interfaces 
            2) Service implementation.
Two interfaces are :
              a) Synchronous interface.
              b)Asynchronous Interface.


 Synchronous Interface:
        A Synchronous interface extends RemoteService interface and defines the methods
        your service exposes.
Example  Program :
             package com.example.Employee.client;
             import com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.RemoteService;
            public interface HelloService extends RemoteService {
                       String sayHello(Person p);
            }
Asynchronous Interface:
    a) Same name as Synchronous interface, but with Async Suffix.
    b) Does not extends Remote service Interface.
    c) Should have all the methods of the synchronous interface.
    d) All methods should have return type of void.
     e)Throw no Exceptions.
     f)Additional final Reference parameter of type AsyncCallback.
Example Program :
        package com.example.Employee.client;
        import com.google.gwt.user.client.rpc.AsyncCallback;
        public interface HelloServiceAsync {
                 void sayHello(Person p,AsyncCallback callback);
          }
Note : Above two interfaces or in client Side.
Service implementation :
must create a server-side implementation of your client side synchronous RemoteService interface.
this must extends the GWT RemoteServiceServlet class.
Example Program : 
             package com.example.Employee.server;
             import com.example.Employee.client.HelloService;
             import com.example.Employee.client.Person;
               public class HelloServiceImpl implements HelloService {
                    public String sayHello(Person p) {
        return "Hello "+p.name+" How is the Weather at "+p.address+ " ?";
}
}

Note : above total 3 parts called as .
 1) Synchronous client service interface.
 2) Asynchronous client service interface.
3) server implementation service servlet.

Note: And the last part in RPC is Servlet, through which the client side class communicates.It is
an actual Implementation of RemoteServiceServlet.
Example Program : 

package com.example.Employee.server;
import com.example.Employee.client.HelloService;
import com.example.Employee.client.Person;
import com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet;

public class HelloServlet extends RemoteServiceServlet implements HelloService {
private HelloService impl = new HelloServiceImpl();
public HelloServlet(){
super();
}
public String sayHello(Person p) {
//Pass through from servlet to Implementation.
return impl.sayHello(p);
}
}

Note : Actually Speaking the server side RemoteService  implementation  and RemoteServiceServlet    

          implementation,can be combined by doing like this .

Combination program:

 RemoteService  implementation  and RemoteServiceServlet implementation

package com.example.Employee.server;

import com.example.Employee.client.HelloService;

import com.example.Employee.client.Person;

import com.google.gwt.user.server.rpc.RemoteServiceServlet;

public class HelloServiceImpl extends RemoteServiceServlet implements HelloService {

public String sayHello(Person p) {

// TODO Auto-generated method stub

return "Hello "+p.name+" How is the Weather at "+p.address+ " ?";

}

}

Question : Why you want separate the RemoteService implementation and RemoteServletService

                 implementation ?

Answer :  Because in larger projects we are like to use the RemoteService outside of remoteServlet

  Service implementation.

Question : What is the use of Asynchronous interface?

Answer : Service side implementation of client side synchronous interface can be accessible in the 

               client side through the Asynchronous interface only.

Question: How to call server from the client?

Answer : Get the Asynchronous service interface from the static method GWT.create()

             and bind it to relative URL for our HelloServlet.

  Example Code : 

          //Obtain Async service for interface.

           HelloServiceAsync service = (HelloServiceAsync) GWT.create(HelloService.class);

          bind it to relative URL for our HelloServlet.

          ServiceDefTarget endpoint = (ServiceDefTarget) service;

          // Bind service  to HTTP path

         endpoint.setServiceEntryPoint(GWT.getModuleBaseURL() +"/HelloService");

Question : What is the Job of RemoteServiceServlet?

Answer : 1) Deserializes the object and pass it to service implementation .

              2) Serializes the object and pass it back to service interface.

 Question : What is GWT stub ?

 Answer : 1)Sits at service interface, serializes the object pass it to RemoteServiceServlet.

               2) Deserializes the object (result from RemoteServiceServlet) pass it to Asyncallback.
Question : What is JSNI ?
Answer : JSNI is required any time you want to call into native JavaScript from java , or ViceVersa.
              There are two sides to JSNI : JAVA and JavaScript.
Question : How to Write Javascript methods in java ?
Answer : Using native keyword and special comments  /*-{ alert(message);}-*/.
Question : How to access the java methods and java fields from within Javascript?
Answer : classes with @ symbol and methods or fields names with ::
 Example :  [Optional .] @class-name:: field-name
                  [Optional .]@class-name::method-name(parm-signature)(arguments)
Question : How to call java method from within the javascript ?
Answer : GWT JSNI uses set of character tokens to indicate the type information for the method
               your calling.
Example :  A java Method a signature like this in Java.
                 public String myMethod(String[] string,int POint,boolean Flag);
                you would invoke it from JSNI with a statement such as this.
              x.@com.my.classname::mymethod([Ljava/lang/StringIZ)(array,2,false);
NOTE : Mapping of Java types to JSNI type signature tokens.
             long : J
             int    : I
            Any Java Class :  L(fully-qualified class path); example : Ljava/lang/String;
            Arrays : [followed by the JSNI token for the contained type.

Question : What is JavaScriptObject class?
Answer :  It allows deep intervine between javascript and Java Objects.In otherwords we want javascript
objects looks like java Objects. A marker that GWT uses to denote the Javascript Objects.

Question : In Gwt how will you cancel the server request ?
   http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideServerCommunication.html#DevGuideRemoteProcedureCalls

Question : In GW how will you handle the time out request?
Answer : 


Question: What is default time out interval for  GWT RPC call ?


Answer : RPC Services do have timeouts, its just that by default they are set to 0, which 
effectively means no timeout.


Good Article :
http://blog.johnhite.com/2010/09/02/gwtgxt-and-session-timeouts/




Question : In GWT how will you handle the Logging ?
 Answer : 


Question : In GWT how will you display an arrayList response in a Webpage?
Hint: There is some component in gwt.


Question :  What is Entry Point in GWT?
 Answer : 


Question : What are the Event Handlers in GWT ?
Answer : See my another Post ..


Question : what is *.gwt.xml ? what is   tag in that?
Answer :  The  *.gwt.xml file called as XML module descriptor. The line ““. tells your  
                 GWT  module to inherit the  GWT Log module.
                 Inherits uses only the fully qualified name of the GWT LOG module.


Question : What is *.index.js file how will you add some div tags into that?
Answer :


Question : What are the different panels in GWT ?
Answer : Dock-panel, vertical Panel, Flow-panel,Horizontal Panel, Absolute panel.


Question : What is the default request time out interval for a RPC call?
Answer   : It is zero.If you want to set the request time interval you can set using the 
                   RequestBuilder.


Question : Will you handle the request timed out exception in server or in client side?
Answer :


Question : where the server side classes will diploy in GWT ?
 Answer : Diploy in websever.


Question : Where the client side classes diploy in GWT ?
Answer : Delpoy in GWT ..


Question : Example of using third part GWT Module ?
Answer :  Gwt Module name : GWT log module .


            Advantages of this mudule :
             1)  Able to display the error,debug,info and warning messages as your app runs.
             2) Set log level globally .
             3) Even turnoff logging locally.