This is a small walkthrough of a simple login screen written with the Google Web Toolkit on the front end, and Groovy and Hibernate on the back end. The entire source code can be found here. For the purposes of brevity we will look at only parts of the code. An IntelliJ 7 project file [...]

The Google Web Toolkit is a framework for creating web applications. It’s main goal is to allow you to develop/debug a Java application and then compile the client side to JavaScript upon deployment. The JavaScript produced behaves the same across browsers (IE, FireFox, Safari), and the server side can be any language used for server [...]