Building Rich Internet Application UI step-by-step without Ajax or plugins - in 100% Java
2009/02/08 20:11We released a new tutorial on how to build rich internet applications in Java with IT Mill Toolkit. This tutorial shows you how to build a real world address book application UI without any HTML, JavaScript or XML.

To study the example application more carefully, here are links to the sources, war deployment files, eclipse project zip:s and live demos for different steps of the tutorial. Please start from the finished application demo.
| Step 1 - Project setup (Hello World) | demo | src | war | eclipse project |
| Step 2 - Building layout | demo | src | war | eclipse project |
| Step 3 - Connecting to a data source | demo | src | war | eclipse project |
| Step 4 - Adding user interactions | demo | src | war | eclipse project |
| Step 5 - Finetuning user experience | demo | src | war | eclipse project |
| Step 6 - Adding application theme | demo | src | war | eclipse project |
Take a look and tell me what you think about the framework and the tutorial.
Hey Guys, Author of More Servlets and JSP, Marty Hall is coming to Bangalore this April to speak on Choosing an Ajax/JavaScript Toolkit: A Comparison of the Most Popular JavaScript Libraries, Pure Java Ajax: An Overview of GWT 2.0, Integrated Ajax Support in JSF 2.0 and Ajax Support in the Prototype JavaScript Library. You can get more information on developersummit.com