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There is two type of layouts: RIA-like and web-page-like. The RIA-like layout is done using the layout panels. The app stretch to the whole available space. There is no scrollbars. The web-page-like layout is done using HTML tags (and some standard panels). The app don't stretch. If the content is larger than the viewport, scrollbars appears, like in traditional pages. Looking at the first screenshot, here is my proposal: 1) The main panel is a DockLayoutPanel attached to RootLayoutPanel. 2) The north slot contains the header. 3) The center slot contains a TabLayoutPanel. But when you show data (list, form...) you may have no enough space to show all. Here you start to use web-page-like layout. So: 4) The contain of the contact tab is a LayoutPanel with four slot: Tighformat, the list, Detail view, Relations. 5) Tighformat, Detail view and Relations are standard panels (FlowPanel) into ScrollPanels. If there not enough space, a scrollbar will appear. 6) The list is some sort of DockLayoutPanel with the headers top, the navigation buttons bottom and the contains of the list in the center with a scrollbar is needed. The exact implementation depends on the used widget for the list (SmartGWT, GXT, gwt-incubator...)

Summary:  Google Web Toolkit (GWT) lets you use the Java™ language to implement rich client user interfaces that run in a browser. In this two-part article, David Geary brings you up to speed on the latest version of GWT and shows you how to implement a desktop-like Web application.