InstaMail: An Ajax-Based Webmail Client

Summary

In this chapter we built a webmail client application utilizing Ajax techniques courtesy of the DWR library. We discovered how DWR allows us to essentially treat Java classes on the server as client-side components, calling methods on them, accessing properties, and so on. We saw how what is truly a small amount of code, with the right libraries, can yield a rather useful application. In addition, we explored just a few more advanced client-side presentation techniques using DOM scripting and CSS.