Tutorials and Articles about DWR
DWR has cropped up in various tutorials around the web.
Connecting DWR and other technologies
Various tutorials have been written about integrating DWR with different technologies:
- Peter Odeus describes how to use DWR with Spring and Java2Script (J2S in short)
- Jose Noheda has blogged about using DWR a number of times:
- DWR with Dojo, and for creating tables.
- For validation: Part One and Part Two.
- With SpringAOP and Spring MVC.
- With Alfresco.
- Mats Henricson has written a stock ticker using DWR and Reverse Ajax. It includes an online presentation and full source code.
- Brendan Granger, one of the DWR committers, blogged about integrating DWR, Spring and JCaptcha.
- Pierre-Alexandre Losson has solved the file-upload problem using Commons-FileUpload and DWR. It looks like a simpler solution than the example Helge Tesgaard created, although his uses Acegi in the mix too, and there is more of a description.
- Josip Mihelko has written about using DWR with Appfuse.
- Jorge MartÃn Cuervo has blogged about his experiences with DWR and JMeter.
- Using DWR and Velocity was written by Sujit Pal.
- Pinaki Poddar has written 2 articles for BEA dev2dev about DWR and EJB3: Part 1 and Part 2.
- DWR and Confluence by Dan Hardiker.
DWR Tutorials
This section is a group of introduction articles to DWR. Mostly from the 1.x time frame.
Java.net: DWR Chat Application Demo
About DWR from it's principle author - Joe Walker
Excerpt: This article demonstrates the use of DWR to create a multi-user web-based chat site. It demonstrates how simple it is to integrate JavaScript in the web browser with Java on the server. The aim is to have a fully functional system in about 100 lines of code for both the client and the server...
This introduction has been translated into Spanish by Mariano Ayesa and translated into Italian by Federico Paparoni.
Katherine Martin updated this article with the release of DWR 2.0 to include chat using reverse ajax.
With release 2.0, DWR continues on the same theme, removing from the developers shoulders the pesky problem of "pushing" information. It introduces the term reverse Ajax to describe this asynchronous transfer of messages from server to browser or browsers.
Sun: Hands-On DWR Labs
Sang Shin from Sun has created a set of Hands on Labs that discuss various Ajax technologies. The DWR part of the labs starts here.
Excerpt: This hands-on lab takes you through the basics of using DWR for developing AJAX-based web applications. This document is designed to get you going as quickly as possible.
IBM DeveloperWorks: Ajax with Direct Web Remoting
Data serialization doesn't get any easier than this! by Phil McCarthy
Excerpt: Philip McCarthy shows you how to use Direct Web Remoting (DWR) to expose JavaBeans methods directly to your JavaScript code and automate the heavy-lifting of Ajax... While DWR is not the only Ajax-RPC toolkit available for the Java platform, it is one of the most mature, and it offers a great deal of useful functionality.
Sys-Con: AJAX: The Easy Way
Introduction to Ajax and DWR by David Teare
Excerpt: For Java Developers there are a number of different frameworks/libraries that hide most of the complexity of developing AJAX-enabled Web applications. For this purposes of this article I'll be using one of those libraries called DWR or Direct Web Remoting. I chose DWR because I haven't found another framework/library that's easier to use or as flexible...
The print version of this page is a lot more readable and doesn't contain any embedded videos or pop over dialogs.
BEA dev2dev: An Introduction To Ajax with DWR
Introduction to Ajax and DWR by David Teare
Excerpt: What's really neat about DWR is that once you configure the services you want to expose to the client, it uses reflection to generate JavaScript objects that your Web page can use to access your service. Your Web page then simply interfaces with the generated JavaScript objects as if they were using the service directly; DWR seamlessly takes care of all of the dirty details of Ajax and request routing....
JavaWorld: AJAX made simple with DWR
An introductory article to DWR by Cloves Carneiro Jr.
Excerpt: This article explains the advantages of using the open source project DWR (Direct Web Remoting) with AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) concepts to improve Web application usability. The author takes a step-by-step approach to show how DWR makes adopting AJAX simple and fast. (1,600 words; June 20, 2005)
