GWT 2 radically improve the web experience for users by using existing tools in Java to build no-compromise AJAX for any modern browser. This provides a solid foundation so that other large libraries can be built on the GWT. Creating web applications efficiently and make them impressive, however, is not as easy as it sounds. Writing web applications for multiple browsers can be very tasking. In addition, the building, reuse, and maintain large JavaScript code base and AJAX components can be difficult. GWT 2 Application Development Cookbook ease this burden by allowing developers to quickly build and maintain complex yet highly efficient JavaScript front-end applications in the Java programming language. This tells you how to make the web experience all the more thrilling and hassle free, using a variety of devices together with the GWT SDK. The book begins with the development application from scratch. Right from creating a home page layout for the home page elements including the left sidebar and right, to place a tree like menu navigation, menu bars, tool bars, banners, footers are discussed with examples. You will see how to create forms using Ext GWT widget library and handle various types of events. Then you will move on to see how to design databases for sales processing system and learn to create a database in MySQL with the help of easy to follow recipe. One of the interesting topics of this book to use JPA in GWT. Using a JPA object in GWT is a challenge. To use it perfectly, the mechanism for converting objects into the object plain JPA and vice versa is needed. You'll see a recipe to use the entity class, entity manager, and controller classes in the GWT application. You will efficiently create reports with parameters, variables and subreports, and get the output reports in HTML and PDF format using real-world recipes. You then will learn to configure the GlassFish server to deploy GWT application with the database. Finally, learn how to track the speed and improve performance in web applications using tracking techniques. Create impressive web application with tool bars, menus, multiple windows, and more with step-by-step guide.