JWt (pronounced "jay-witty") is an

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widget-centric

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for the

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developed by Emweb. It has an API that uses established GUI application development patterns. The programming model is component-based and

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, similar to

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. The goal of the library is to benefit from the stateful component model used in desktop applications APIs, applied to web development, instead of the traditional

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(MVC) model. Rather than using MVC at the level of a page, MVC is pushed to the level of individual components. While the library uses a desktop application development model, it does support web-specific features including

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s, browser history navigation support, internationalization, themes, and styling. A unique feature of the library is its abstraction layer of the browser rendering model. The library uses

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for communicating with Ajax-capable browsers, while using plain HTML form post-backs for other user agents (for accessibility and search engines). Using a progressive bootstrap method, the user interface is initially rendered as plain HTML, and for Ajax-capable browsers, it is automatically upgraded to use Ajax for increased interactivity. JWt is distributed as a jar file. A JWt application is a war file that is deployed in a standards-compliant

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Major features

See the feature list on the project homepage for a more detailed overview. * Automatic

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and

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* On all modern browsers, a JWt application is a

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, with full support for forward/back and bookmark navigation, but still fully

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. * Supports server-initiated events (

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), and uses

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when deployed within a Servlet 3.0 container. * A unified 2D rendering API (SVG/HTML5 canvas/VML/PDF) with java.awt.Graphics2D compatibility * Integrated

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rendering for Widgets, Graphics (Charts) and HTML/CSS, to generate reports * Both client-side and server-side validation * Various automatic built-in security features to avoid

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and

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vulnerabilities. * Theme support through CSS or Bootstrap * Available widgets are demonstrated in th
widget gallery
* A 3D painting API for WebGL rendering, with fallback to server-side GPU accelerated rendering * A 3D chart API (surfaces, points, bar charts, ...) supporting selection, intersection highlighting, height maps, isolines, ...

Code example

The Hello World! example full source code /* * A simple hello world application class which demonstrates how to react * to events, read input, and give feed-back. */ public class HelloApplication extends WApplication

References

External links

JWt Project Homepage

Article
in Dr Dobb's Journal, Feb 2008
Introductory article
at CodeGuru, Jun 2008 {{DEFAULTSORT:JWt - Java web Toolkit Ajax (programming) Articles with example Java code Rich web application frameworks Web development software Web frameworks

Major features

Code example

See also

References

External links