How to implement server side rendering?
Its’ very easy. Just write HTML code rendering component on server side (it may be JSP or any templating engine) and pass generated HTML to GWT client side via GWT RPC. Now when you have the generated HTML write the following class: public class ServerSideContentRenderer extends DefaultGridRenderer { private String html;// HTML tbody content rendered on server side public ServerSideContentRenderer(EditableGrid grid, String html) { super(grid); this.html= html; } public void drawContent(GridDataModel model) { DOM.setInnerHTML(getTBodyElement(),html); } } Note if use at least one editable column you have to fill a data model with correct data, i.e. you need two copies of data: original and rendered as HTML. Now assign the new renderer to your grid using the EditableGrid.setGridRenderer() method.