Summary

This chapter provided samples for a couple of common tasks that are used in web development: tables and lists, field completion, and even a generic frame, called a dynamic user interface, for our sample code. Both the tables and lists sample and the field completion sample had a very simple CSV-based "database" that holds the data for our purposes, and both had a remoted method that DWR uses to get the data from the server and show it in the client.

We also saw some good examples of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In fact, without knowledge of JavaScript it would be difficult to write web applications.

Many years ago, as some of you may remember, JavaScript was a dirty word in web development and no self-respecting developer would touch JavaScript. But change is a part of life, and in this case, change has been for the better. JavaScript and Java work very well together with the DWR in between.

The next chapter continues with the user interface part, and shows a couple more samples, including...