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DWR : A paradigm shift in web development

by Jerome Kehrli


Posted on Thursday Apr 29, 2010 at 04:57PM in Java


I discovered DWR recently and I believe it to be an amazing breakthrough in the world of HTTP client-server comunications.

First what is DWR ?

DWR stands for Direct Web Remoting - Easy Ajax for Java.

DWR is a Java library that enables Java on the server and JavaScript in a browser to interact and call each other as simply as possible.

Quoting the official website :

"DWR is a RPC library which makes it easy to call Java functions from JavaScript and to call JavaScript functions from Java (a.k.a Reverse Ajax)."
Read this : http://directwebremoting.org/dwr/introduction/index.html.

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