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Before I know it I’m almost 3 months further and no posts yet…. When I started developing an application with GWT I soon found out I needed a basic infrastructure to speed up the development.

Part of the infrastructure is the Java servlet engine and how it works. A good start is the Java servlet specification: servlet-2_4-fr-spec.pdf, which you can download here from the sun site. This describes all standard functionality, which you get from a servlet engine, like Tomcat.

I started with a basic look and feel similar to Google Mail and Google Calendar or also available in the GWT Kitchen Sink example. The features I want are the list on the left side, the main panels, a settings panel and a feedback panel at the top which is shown when errors occur or after some user action. To be able to develop my own application faster I first decided to build a basic framework that handles all these panels and to build my application up on this framework. That way I don’t have to worry about basic features and can focus on the features I want in my application. I plan to release the framework when its finished. I have no planning but I don’t hope it will take another 3 months…

The purpose of this blog originates from my interest in building web based applications (also referred to as AJAX or Web 2.0). Ever since Google released their Google Web Toolkit I have been interested in the possibilities of this new way of developing web based applications.

Initially I developed a small widget to get rounded corners (see: gwt.bouwkamp.com). But I started to think about developing a real life application based on this toolkit and see if this technology is up to that task. Because my interest in personal finance applications and the lack of good applications I decided that a web based personal finance application is a perfect case.
On this blog I hope to write about the progress, development (struggles;-), post idea’s and code.