google-ajax-api – Tarik Billa

Clean way in GWT/Java to wait for multiple asynchronous events to finish

August 16, 2023 by Tarik

I wrote two classes that solve this problem on my project. Basically, each individual callback registers with a parent. The parent waits for each child callback to complete, then fires off it’s own handleSuccess(). The client code looks like this: public void someGwtClientSideMethod() { SomeServiceAsync someService = GWT.create(SomeService.class); ParallelCallback fooCallback = new ParallelCallback(); ParallelCallback barCallback … Read more

google.setOnLoadCallback with jQuery $(document).ready(), is it OK to mix?

April 11, 2023 by Tarik

You pretty much have to do this: google.setOnLoadCallback(function() { $(function() { // init my stuff }); }); You can’t do $(document).ready() without $ (the jQuery object) being available, so that needs to go inside the callback. And you can’t be sure the document is ready inside the callback, so you have to do ready() too.