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Google Web Toolkit
Introduction & Overview
Introduction & Overview
Fred Sauer
Developer Advocate
fredsa@google.com
SV Code Camp
Oct 4, 2009
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Agenda
Introduction
Selecting a language
Feature tour
Developer productivity
Need for speed
Compiler magic
Q&A
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Google Web Toolkit
Write
Core Java APIs
Widgets
Libraries
Java IDEs
Debug
JVM Debugging
Development
Mode
A real browser
Developer
Productivity
Optimize
GWT Compiler
Image Bundle
(Sprites)
CSS Magic
End User
Performance
Run
Desktop
Mobile
Online/Offline
Gadgets
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May 2006 GWT 1.0 Launch at JavaOne
Aug 2008 GWT 1.5 Java 5 language support
Apr 2009 GWT 1.7 Dedicated IE8 support
Fall 2009 GWT 2.0 LOTS of interesting stuff
3+ years in review
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Mission statement
"GWT's mission is to radically improve
the web experience for users by
enabling developers to use existing
Java tools to build no-compromise
AJAX for any modern browser."
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Focus
Productivity for developers
Language, IDEs, tools, libraries
People, ecosystem
Performance for your users
'Perfect' caching
Whole program optimization
Better than practical hand written code
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No plugins required
VML Flash
Silverlight
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What we don't want
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GWT Browser-Proofs Your JavaScript Code...
IE
Firefox
Safari
Chrome
Opera
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Deferred Binding
14800 ms4836 ms1997 ms7148 msDOM manipulation
2469 ms1520 ms918 ms2477 msinnerText=...
-1386 ms908 ms-textContent=...
4078 ms2053 ms1276 ms2876 msTypical portable
setInnerText()
IEOperaWebkit (Safari)Firefox
Improvement 39%32%29%14%
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A More Powerful Web, Made Easier
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Eating our own dogfood
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Selecting a language
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Rich ecosystem of tools and libraries
+ + =
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Code completion and javadoc
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Can you find the bug?
Hint: JavaScript is a dynamic language
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Java is a static language
Catch errors at compile time
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Feature tour
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Pluggable Architecture
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More than just a compiler
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Sprites for free
20,558 bytes
6,824 bytes
11 separate images
1 bundled image
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Without ClientBundle
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Roundtrips are deadly
1 round trip for TCP connection setup
(1 round trip for HTTP redirect?)
1 round trip for each HTTP request
$ ping ohare.comPING ohare.com (70.142.247.22): 56 data bytes64
bytes from 70.142.247.22: icmp_seq=0 ttl=113 time=54.689 ms64
bytes from 70.142.247.22: icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time=55.500 ms64
bytes from 70.142.247.22: icmp_seq=2 ttl=113 time=54.728 ms
$ ping ohare.comPING ohare.com (70.142.247.22): 56 data bytes64
bytes from 70.142.247.22: icmp_seq=0 ttl=113 time=54.689 ms64
bytes from 70.142.247.22: icmp_seq=1 ttl=113 time=55.500 ms64
bytes from 70.142.247.22: icmp_seq=2 ttl=113 time=54.728 ms
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Reducing round trip time
Use HTTP Expires and Cache-Control headers
Use GWT 'Perfect Caching'
Cache 'forever' - your entire app and all its resources
Bundle, bundle, bundle
Enable HTTP Pipelining
Use multiple hostnames
Defeat browser's two connection limit
Watch out for DNS lookup overhead though
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Know your HTTP Headers
<!-- See RFC 2616. Here's an example:
Expires: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:21:55 GMT
Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000
-->
<Files *.cache.*>
ExpiresDefault "now plus 1 year"
</Files>
<Files *.nocache.*>
ExpiresDefault "access"
</Files>
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History just works
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Rich Text Area
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RTL, I18N, L10N, A11Y
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Widget Libraries
• GWT (http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/)
• Incubator (http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-incubator/)
• Smart GWT (http://code.google.com/p/smartgwt/)
• GWT-Ext (http://code.google.com/p/gwt-ext/)
• Vaadin (IT Mill Toolkit) (http://vaadin.com/)
• GWT mosaic (http://code.google.com/p/gwt-mosaic/)
• Ext GWT (http://extjs.com/products/gxt/)
• Advanced GWT Components
(http://advanced-gwt.sourceforge.net/)
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GUI Editing
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Simple, Powerful RPCs
interface SpellService extends RemoteService {
/**
* Checks spelling and suggests
* alternatives.
* @param the word to check
* @return the list of alternatives
*/
String[] suggest(String word);
}
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Shameless plugs (gwt-dnd, gwt-log, gwt-
voices)
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Developer productivity
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GWT 2.0 operating modes
Development Mode (Hosted Mode)
All about productivity
Java + JavaScript
Now in any supported browser
Production Mode (Web Mode)
All about performance
Compiled, Pure JavaScript
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Development Mode (Hosted Mode)
JVM debugging
Server & Client code in the same IDE
Step in / over / out
Introspect & modify variables
Hot swap code (ignore the IDE warning!)
NOT TRUE
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Java
Virtu
al
Mac
hine
Development Mode
Code
Server
Web
Server
Duke, the Java mascot
Copyright © Sun Microsystems Inc., all rights reserved.
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Google Plugin for Eclipse
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Eclipse plugin highlights
Extensive JSNI support
RPC sync/async quick fixes
Launch configurations
GWT JUnit tests
Contributor SDKs (gwt-user, gwt-dev-<platform>)
Development Mode (GWT 2.0)
Hosted Mode (GWT 1.7)
Constantly improving; check back often
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GWT Debugging in the browser
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Need for speed
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Speed matters
perceived as instantaneous.
maintains the feeling that a single task
is being carried out.
limit for keeping user’s attention.
0.1 seconds
1 second
10 seconds
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Another reason speed matters
2. UI
Changes
3. User
Learns
1. User
Action
Performance for your
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GWT Helps Apps Startup More Quickly
26-Nov 29-Apr 18-Jun 28-Jul 12-Sep 27-Oct 24-Dec 16-Mar
SizeofInitialJavaScriptDownload(KB)
375
750
1125
1500
0
7x Decrease In
Initial Download Size
with runAsync()
1400 KB
200 KB
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Developer guided code splitting
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Developer guided code splitting
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Manual code splitting - Don't try this at home
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Developer guided code splitting
GWT.runAsync(new RunAsyncCallback() {
public void onSuccess() {
…
}
public void onFailure(Throwable caught) {
…
}
});
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Story of Your Compile (SOYC)
-C
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Compiler magic
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GWT quote to remember
“The fastest code is that
which does not run.”
Joel Webber
GWT co-creator
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Conventional and non-conventional
Java transformations
Dead-code elimination
Method inlining
Constant folding & propagation
JavaScript transformations (gzip motivated)
Method reordering
Argument renaming
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EXPERIMENTAL arguments you should
know
// Don't care what Class#getName() returns?
-XdisableClassMetadata 5% - 10%
script reduction
Showcase metadata before
Showcase metadata after
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EXPERIMENTAL arguments you should
know
// In a real-world (very large) Google app...
// 1% script size reduction
// 10% faster in performance-sensitive code
-XdisableCastChecking
try {
((Quacker) animal).quack();
} catch (ClassCastException c) {
Window.alert("Found a non-quacker");
}
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Thank you
Read more
http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
Contact info
Fred Sauer
Developer Advocate
fredsa@google.com
Questions?

GWT Introduction and Overview - SV Code Camp 09

Editor's Notes

  • #3 quick survey Raise your hand if you&amp;apos;ve never written a web app using GWT …your organization maintains multiple (&amp;gt;1) GWT apps …uses GWT for all new web apps We have a lot to cover, so let&amp;apos;s begin
  • #6 Hope: you&amp;apos;ve read GWT mission statement Hope: agree that we must FOCUS ON THE USER experience Part of that mission means making you, the developer, more productive
  • #7 In other words, GWT is all about… PRODUCTIVITY FOR DEVELOPERS LIKE YOU AND PERFORMANCE FOR YOUR USERS
  • #10 Google Web Toolkit 101
  • #20 OUR generators, more importantly YOUR generators
  • #24 I&amp;apos;d like to take a moment to talk about a widely misunderstood problem. The problem is of course: WHY IS OUR WEB SITE SO SLOOOOOOOOOW? &amp;lt;click through&amp;gt; If HTML + CSS + JavaScript + Images = 40 files, that&amp;apos;s 50ms*40=2s Last night I pinged a few servers in Sydney; 380ms * 40 = 15s!!!
  • #26 GWT produces two classes of files: cache/nocache - *cache* =&amp;gt; cache forever; new versions receive new file names - *nocache* =&amp;gt; must-revalidate Raise your hand if your web server set Expires/Cache-Control headers So how do we create those perfectly cacheable *cache* files?
  • #29 When you&amp;apos;re building real apps you need certain things to &amp;quot;just work&amp;quot; Constants, Messages, ConstantsWithLookup, Dictionary, Localizable, DateTimeFormat, NumberFormat
  • #35 That&amp;apos;s the productivity, performance and speed pitch Now, let&amp;apos;s get to know our toolkit in more detail
  • #49 A very useful tool: - understand why your JavaScript output isn&amp;apos;t quite as small (yet) as it could be - why initial download is large
  • #50 We already covered -style PRETTY and -draftCompile for DEVELOPMENT. Hopefully in DEVELOPMENT you also are building just ONE PERMUTATION (i.e. one browser, one language, one logging level) - If not (or for PRODUCTION) use -localWorkers=#cores
  • #58 Now for something different. Here&amp;apos;s a simple JavsScript object in JSON format - {} identify JavaScript objects, [] identify arrays, : for name/value pairs JSON is great - transfer data between client and server OR between servers - Subset of ECMA script so it can be parsed or eval()&amp;apos;d by the browser
  • #60 In JavaScript you have a couple of options 1. Write the whole thing out every time; brittle w.r.t. changes 2. Introduce function overhead Wouldn&amp;apos;t it be great if we could have our cake and eat it too? WE CAN!
  • #61 If you&amp;apos;re using com.google.gwt.json.JSON library, STOP Use JSO Types instead -You keep the abstractions that make you productive -Your user sees none of that code; only the benefits GREAT for federating/integrating with other systems via web hooks or RESTful interfaces
  • #65 ImageBundles are really easy to create - Declare an interface with a method for each image - That&amp;apos;s it!
  • #66 We can of course bundle other resources as well Remember: bundle, bundle, bundle
  • #67 RFC 2397 data: URLs This cursor data: URL can be injected into your injected stylesheet at compile time - You get the convenience of a separate *.cur file - The user either gets a forever cacheable strongly named URL or an inline data: resource - YOU BOTH WIN
  • #68 Locale sensitive names so different languages can have different images Your getWidth()/getHeight() methods automatically adjust
  • #70 &amp;lt;set-configuration-property name=&amp;quot;CssResource.obfuscationPrefix&amp;quot; value=&amp;quot;foo&amp;quot; /&amp;gt; &amp;lt;set-configuration-property name=&amp;quot;CssResource.obfuscationPrefix&amp;quot; value=&amp;quot;foo&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;
  • #72 How many of you are interested in gadgets? &amp;lt;MAYBE SKIP SECTION?&amp;gt; GWT makes it really easy to create them without having to resort to hand written JavaScript
  • #79 - Logging code is partially/completely compiled out in production - Mobile clients log to server - UncaughtExceptionHandler included
  • #81 Add or improve stack traces where browsers are lacking
  • #82 compiler.emulatedStack does add overhead (not for PRODUCTION) - You can just turn on recordLineNumbers (less overhead) - You can already get original method names from the symbol maps
  • #83 This stack trace came from 100% compiled JavaScript - UNKNOWN indicates this is browser land, not your JVM - short, two-letter method names shows OBFUSCATED output - Original Java class/method names injected into source - Copy/paste into your IDE stacktrace console and they are hyperlinked!