Programming with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0
March 15-18 2011, JHU Dorsey Center, Elkridge MD
Co-Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Engineering for Professionals
“Wonderful. In 20 years,
this is the best organized, most pragmatic and
enjoyable course I've taken.”
“The best instructor-led
course I have attended, by far.”
“Best short course ever!”
“Compared to the other short courses I have taken, this one completely redefined my scale from 1-10.”
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This page describes the public (open enrollment) training course on Ajax programming with GWT to be held
March 15-18 at the Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center in
Elkridge, MD (co-sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals program).
The entire course is personally developed and taught by leading Java developer, speaker, and author
Marty Hall.
No contract instructor regurgitating someone else's materials! Marty has taught Java technology courses onsite for
dozens of organizations in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia,
Japan, Puerto Rico, India, and the Philippines, all to rave reviews.
If you are looking for customized Java, J2EE, JSF 2.0, GWT, Ajax, or jQuery training courses
taught on-site at your company, please see this page.
Register Early!
Five of Marty's previous public short courses were full,
so reserve your spot today.
Registrations are taken in the order they are received.
The Google Web Toolkit is a free and open-source toolkit for building Ajax applications using Java.
It is the single-most important new Ajax toolkit introduced in the last several
years, but it uses a drastically different approach than the other toolkits such as jQuery, Prototype,
Scriptaculous, Dojo, Ext-JS, or YUI. As a result, it is difficult for traditional Ajax developers to understand
how to use GWT effectively. Furthermore, GWT 2.0 introduced many changes and new features, so even programmers
who used previous GWT releases need a fast-moving primer to get them up to speed with GWT 2.0.
This course provides a practical, hands-on introduction to building Ajax-enabled applications with GWT 2.0.
In each section, it gives details on the most important topics,
surveys more advanced or lesser-used topics, stresses best practices, and gives plenty of working examples.
Each section is followed by a series of hands-on exercises to reinforce the concepts. There are a choice
of exercises of varying complexity so as to accommodate developers with various levels of expertise and previous experience.
Marty normally runs
on-site training courses at customer locations.
This is easier administratively, is better for clients since the topics and schedule can be customized, and is
more cost effective for students since no travel is required. However, due to demand from those
who do not have enough students for an on-site course, Marty will be a running public
(open enrollment) Java 6 training course March 15-18 at the Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center in Elkridge MD.
The course is developed and taught by
Marty Hall, an experienced developer,
award-winning instructor, popular conference speaker (5 times at JavaOne), and
author of several bestselling Java books.
Marty & Java inventor James Gosling at Marty's car.
Marty Hall is the author of six popular Java EE books, including Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages,
the all-time worldwide bestselling servlet/JSP book, published in Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified Script (Mainland China),
Chinese Traditional Script (Taiwan), Czech, Greek, English, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese,
Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Marty is president of coreservlets.com, a
training and consulting company focusing on server-side Java technology and Rich Internet Apps with Ajax.
In addition to long Java development and consulting experience, Marty has an extensive background in teaching and training,
having given training courses on J2EE, JSF 2.0, GWT, and Ajax topics in Japan, Canada, Australia, the Philippines, Mexico, Puerto Rico, India,
and dozens of US venues. A popular and entertaining speaker, Marty has spoken at conferences and user groups around the world,
including Comdex, the Web 2.0 Expo, the Great Indian Developer Summit, and five times at JavaOne.
Marty is also adjunct faculty in the Johns Hopkins University
part-time graduate program in Computer Science, where he directs the Java and Web-related concentration areas.
The course consists of an approximately equal mixture of lecture and hands-on lab
time and assumes that all students have strong Java skills.
It does not assume any previous exposure to GWT or Ajax, nor does it presume JavaScript knowledge.
The course will be held at
the Johns Hopkins Dorsey Center in
Elkridge, Maryland. This is a modern, comfortable venue with separate computers for each student, fast internet connections,
and with coffee, snacks, and meals included. Class meets from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm daily. For students who
prefer to bring their own laptops, fast wifi is available, and you can
email the instructor for information
on installing the class software in advance.
For Maryland residents, the location is centrally located 5 minutes from BWI airport and has plenty of free parking.
For out-of-town students, there are many hotels within 1 mile.
The four-day course costs $1995 per student and includes an extensive course notebook, a commercial
textbook, exercises, exercise solutions, breakfast, snacks, and lunch. Compare this price to courses from Sun, Learning Tree, GlobalKnowledge,
and Oracle University that cost around $2400 for four-day courses and $3000 for five-day courses that do not
include textbooks or meals. Besides, those courses almost always use an unknown instructor who did not develop the course materials
and often lacks significant real-world development experience.
To register, fill out and send in the
course registration form.
Space is limited: five previous offerings of coreservlets.com courses were full.
Bonus: Register at least a week in advance and get a $50 gift certificate from amazon.com.
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- Guinea pigs? No! Marty's courses are well-tested, having been taught
in 8 countries and dozens of US venues. We
don't use your developers as guinea pigs for new materials.
- Regurgitation? No! Marty developed all his own materials. No
contract instructor regurgitating memorized PowerPoint slides.
- Green? No! Marty is an experienced developer, and
is the author of 6 popular Java EE texts from Prentice Hall. The course
gives best practices and real-world strategies. No newbie
instructor dodging tough questions.
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Course now includes Ext GWT
- GWT Overview: Overview, Pros/Cons, Installation, Setup
- GWT Basics: Building and Deploying Apps, Basic Structure
- Widget Event Handling
- Accessing Server Data with GWT RPC
- Advanced RPC and Server Data Handling
- Laying Out Windows with Panels: Part I (Basic Panels)
- Laying Out Windows with Panels: Part II (Composite Panels)
- History Handling: Dealing with the Back Button and Bookmarks
- More GWT Widgets
- Ext GWT: Panels and Windows
- Ext GWT: Widgets
- Ext GWT: Charts
- Wrapping Existing JavaScript Libraries with JSNI
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