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• Programming Languages : Java
• Programming : Object-Oriented
• Web Design/Development : Ajax
• Other Topics : Open Source

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The book is aimed at programmers who want to use GWT to create interfaces for their professional web applications. It concentrates on the serious side of AJAX: creating powerful, productive applications for browser platforms. GWT AJAX Programming shows you how to create reliable user interfaces that enhance the user experience.

GWT is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.

GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

Among the many topics covered are:

• Set up an elegant GWT development environment in Eclipse
• Create, test, debug and deploy GWT applications
• Develop custom widgets -- examples include a calendar and weather forecast widget
• Internationalize your GWT applications
• Create complex interfaces using grids, moveable elements, and more
• Integrate GWT with Rico, Moo.fx and Script.aculo.us to create even more attractive UIs using JSNI

Each chapter covers a series of practical tasks, showing how to achieve a particular useful result -- and then learn how it works so that you can apply your knowledge to your own unique situation.

Readers will need experience writing non-trivial applications using Java. Experience with developing web interfaces is useful, but knowledge of JavaScript and DHTML is not required -- GWT takes care of that!

About the Author

Prabhakar Chaganti is an enterprise software architect and open source evangelist working for a cutting edge software company in the suburbs of Atlanta. His interests include Linux, Ruby, Python, Java and Virtualization. He recently won the community choice award for the most innovative virtual appliance in the 2006 VMWare Ultimate Global Virtual Appliance Challenge.

Jul 19, 2007     Rylant Smith from Santa Clara, CA
Useful introduction
This book was a quick and fast intro to GWT. It gave me a good overview of the frmework and a feel for how to go about doing common things with the toolkit.

Apr 27, 2007     Lee Chu-Young
Introduce you to GWT
This book is a nice introduction to the google toolkit. I am building web site for my dept at my university in korea which aggregates widgets in a somwhat portal like way. I like the widget examples and were very useful for me. I already been using GWT so there was lot i work before.

Apr 22, 2007     Niall Johnston
Gets you up and runing fast
Covers GWT well and got a google toolkit novice like me up and running quickly. I dont have much experience with AJAX itself, but know Swing fairly well. I was able to read the chapters and work through the examples and get a decent grounding in how to do stuff with GWT. Nice and recommended.

Apr 4, 2007     Tony Kuderis
A very practical book
Just got it after reading the recent slashdot review. It was very practical and was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed working through the various examples. Kudos to the author for a new approach to explaining a technology.

Mar 18, 2007     Stephen Fleming from Boston. MA
Nice coverage of gwt
This was one of the books i got along with the Ajax and Java book. I like this book as it seems to be an excellent way to explore gwt. There were a lot of examples that covered a wide variety of common uses for gwt. The book was a quick read and the author went through the samples at a rapid pace. I liked the jsni chaper particularly which showed how to integrate rico libs. The task approach taken by the book where you code a working example and then explain it, got me in to the book. Also the samples actually worked. Overall a very good book.

Mar 16, 2007     John Merton from Phoenix, AZ
A great way to get into GWT and AJAX
I just started getting into using GWT recently. The documentation available for it is not too bad, but I kept falling into holes and tripping up while learning it. I spent a lot of time lurking on their mailing list. I just wanted to do simple things - create simple widgets, run unit tests and deploy to tomcat. So when I saw a new book on GWt, I got it and I am glad I did. This book dives straight into doing things using GWT without sending a lot of time ang pages on theory. I really liked this approach. I dont need a text book. I just want to know how to do things with GWT. Show me a few things, and I will apply them to my problems. I am glad to say that this book had exactly what I was looking for. It has a chapters on creating widgets - i particularly liked the calendar and weather widgets as they look like mac desktop widgets. It shows how to write unit tests, which is one topic that most people on the GWT group dont seem to care much about. There is also a good chapter on using Moo.fx and rico JS libs from GWT using JSNi which i didnt know was possible. It takes a cookbook approach and goes through a lot of topics at a fast pace. The examples all seem useful and well thought out. Some of them are really cool - there is a jigsaw puzzle and also one about writing sticky notes using GWT. It covers most topics that a normal GWT application would need. A well written book.

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