Real Ajax for Real Java Developers: GWT & jQUERY

In this days every Ajax application uses jQuery or Dojo or something like this. If you ask me jQuery is the most often framework because it is small, it helps a lot, it has cool features and it is promoted by Microsoft (we live in strange days). jQuery can be used for many things one of them is effects. We all know how Flash, Silverilght and JavaFX “Rich UI” look and often with CSS and JavaScript it’s very hard to make things that can be done in easy in flash. The jQuery helps a lot with it fade effects slideUp/slideDown and etc. I as a Java Developer I like GWT but often I use JSF too. When I use JSF I’ve always add JQuery because at certain point I’ve always need to type some javascript and with jquery its easier. When I use GWT I’ve wanted to be able to use JQuery the same way like I’ve use it in JSF app or even better. The solution is GWTQuery or GQuery.

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