Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT View Larger Image | Jeff Dwyer
Apress, Paperback, Published May 2008, 480 pages, ISBN 1590599853 | List Price: $44.99
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The main focus of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT is a case study
of a real Web 2.0 application called ToCollege.net.
What you’ll learn:
• You’ll take a full tour of a modern Web 2.0 startup’s codebase.
That’s 15,000 lines of source code that includes everything from Google
Gears integration to Acegi OpenID, Lucene full–text search, and Google
Maps, all of it integrated with GWT 1.5.
• Leveraging this book’s available source code, you’ll see the nitty–gritty
details of how to merge a modern Web 2.0 application stack including Hibernate,
Spring, Spring MVC 2.5, SiteMesh, and Freemarker together.
• You’ll see how to wire GWT into an industry standard Maven build environment,
which will help you get up to speed quickly and avoid configuration headaches.
• The great pitfall of many Ajax applications is they’re mostly opaque
to search engines. You’ll see the ToCollege.net solution to this thorny
problem.
• Protection from XSS and XSRF attacks is beyond the scope of simple GWT tutorials,
but they are a real concern for a site like ToCollege.net. The book will cover
the ToCollege.net security architecture in detail.
Who is this book for?
This book is for developers who are ready to move beyond small proof–of–concept
sample applications and want to look at the issues surrounding a real deployment
of GWT. If you want to see what the guts of a full–fledged GWT application
look like, this is the book for you.
GWT 1.5 is a game–changing technology, but it doesn’t exist in a
bubble. Real deployments need to connect to your database, enforce authentication,
provide protection from security threats, and allow good search engine optimization.
To show you all this, this book looks at the code behind a real live web site
called ToCollege.net. This application specializes in helping students who are
applying to colleges, allowing them to manage their application process and
compare the rankings that they give to each school. It’s a slick application
that’s ready for you to sign up and use.
The audience for this book either owns another GWT book for the basic tutorials
or is comfortable using the online documentation and forums when they’re
stuck, which allows this book to move quickly and focus on answering the bigger
architecture questions.
About the Apress Pro Series
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You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these tough competitive
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About the Author
Jeff Dwyer is a developer and entrepreneur who is the founder of ToCollege.net
and MyHippocampus.com. His background is in medical software, where he has published
research on aneurysm stress and endovascular repair and has patented techniques
in anatomical visualization. As a developer, Jeff likes nothing better than
to leverage high–quality open source code so he can focus on the core elements
of his projects. He believes that GWT has fundamentally altered the feasibility
of large Web 2.0 applications.
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