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DWR – Easy Ajax for Java Ivanka Todorova April 4, 2007 Acknowledgements These slides are created from contents from DWR web site /dwr Many slides are based on: Sang Shin. Introduction to DWR (Direct Web Remoting). Retrieved April 1, 2007 on the World Wide Web: /ajax/DWR.pdf Topics What is DWR? Steps for building DWR-based AJAX application Registering callback functions Converters Creators Utility functions Additional Resources with Coding Examples of DWR Applications What is DWR? What is DWR? Consists of a server-side Java libraries, a DWR servlet, and JavaScript libraries that allow you to write Ajax web applications Hides low-level XMLHttpRequest Handling Specifically designed with Java technology in mind “Easy Ajax for Java” Allows JavaScript code in a browser to use Java functions running on a web server as if they were in the browser That’s why it is called “Direct remoting” Why DWR? Without DWR, you would have to create many Web application endpoints (servlets) that need to be addressable via URIs If you have several methods in a class on the server that you want to invoke from the browser Each of these methods need to be addressable via URI You would have to map parameters and return values to HTML input form parameters and responses yourself DWR comes with some JavaScript utility functions 1. How Does DWR Work? DWR dynamically generates a matching client-side JavaScript class from a backend Java class Allows you to write JavaScript code that looks like conventional RPC/RMI code The generated JavaScript class handles remoting details between the browser and the backend server Handles asynchronous communication via XMLHttpRequest by invoking the callback function in the JavaScript You provide the callback function as additional parameter DWR converts all the parameters and return values between client-side JavaScript and backend Java. 2. How DWR Works DWR dynamically generates an AjaxService class in Javascript to match some server-side code. This