Advanced RIA architecture with GWT - Part I (first overview)

Rich Internet Applications (RIA) are not really a new thing, but currently there are just a couple of web pages out there, using a real RIA architecture. So it's new enough to write a series of articles about creating a good RIA architecture with the Google Web Toolkit. I'm sure some of the patterns and concepts are also portable to other frameworks.

Grails GWT Google Group

There are lots of comments with questions below my Grails / GWT tutorial. Many people are also asking questions about GWT on the Grails mailing list. To move Grails / GWT related questions to single public place there's a Grails GWT Google Group now.

Come in and join, if you're interested in using GWT with Grails.

GWT best practices

A great talk from Google IO 2009 by Ray Ryan:




It comes with two great ideas, Dependency Injection for GWT and a pattern called MVP/EventBus.
Sounds pretty interesting.

Grails/GWT Tutorial I - The first steps.

After someone was asking for a basic tutorial and samle application for using the Grails GWT plugin on the Grails mailing list, I've just written one.
You can read it under http://code.google.com/p/derjanandhisblog/wiki/GWTGrailsTutorial.
It should show you, how to create a domain model, a service for RPC calls and a very basic GWT client, which calls data from the Grails app and displays it.

Hopefully I'll find enough time to extend the tutorial and the application in the next weeks, to make it real book store ;-)