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Beginning GWT by Bram Smeets introduces one of today’s most popular open source lightweight Java-based Ajax Web Frameworks, the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) from the ground-up.
Written by an industry expert who has delivered many Web applications for his clients and a Spring expert, Bram takes a no-nonsense, down to earth approach to GWT and guides the reader though the development of a Web application front end using GWT from the ground up.
This will be one of the first tutorials on GWT.
Bram Smeets is a Java architect with over 8 years experience in developing enterprise Java applications. Currently, Bram is Technical Director at JTeam (www.jteam.nl), a Java software development company based in The Netherlands and Senior Consultant at SpringSource (www.springsource.com). He is a regular speaker at technology focused conferences like The Ajax Experience and SpringOne. Using GWT, Bram has delivered several successful RIA projects at JTeam. He also delivered Ajax and GWT trainings at several companies
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Good, but out of date,
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This review is from: Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)
The book is well written but is now terribly out of date. The book was written for GWT version 1.5, but at the time of my purchase GWT 1.7 was the latest release. There were more differences than I expected. In just the first third of the book I found the following:
- applicationCreator.cmd is no longer a GWT command. It has been replaced by webAppCreator.cmd - webAppCreator.cmd creates a different directory structure than the illustrated examples. - The default application that GWT generates has changed. - A new event model was introduced in GWT 1.6. Specifically, Listeners are replaced with Handlers. You will encounter this for the first time in chapter 3. - While I was following the exercises using GWT 1.7, Google released GWT 2.0 which further obsoleted this edition. The 2.0 release introduced a declarative UI with UIBinder. Of course that won't be in this book. Also in 2.0 "Development Mode" replaced the "Hosted Mode" which is great but will confuse the novice using this book as guidance. The only way this book would be helpful is if you download GWT 1.5 to follow along with the examples. I don't know many programmers, novice or otherwise, that would be content to learn a technology on an old release with deprecated methods and obsolete tooling. I like the narratives of the book, I like the way it flows, and if the authors ever decide to publish a new edition with GWT 2.0 with the same style and accuracy it would probably earn five stars. Unfortunately the book is too many releases out of date (which is too bad considering it was just Copyrighted in 2008!)
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Beginning Google Web Toolkit,
This review is from: Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)
This is a good book that will definitely get you up and running in developing with GWT. It covers basic widget layouts, Ajax and Java 1.5. Generics and annotations are used throughout the accompanying code example. The code example included is added onto in each chapter. It is very good and uses several design patterns such as listeners and builders and is very OO, maybe too much in some places. The code example is meant to scale by its usage of managers, a lot of interfaces, and abstraction.
The server integration chapter will get you started, but doesn't contain a lot of content. This chapter is only fifteen pages or so. Luckily, there's many examples on GWT's site.
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This review is from: Beginning Google Web Toolkit: From Novice to Professional (Expert's Voice in Web Development) (Paperback)
I can highly recommand "Beginning Google Web Toolkit" from Apress if you want to start learning GWT.
The nice thing about this book is that it is based on GWT 1.5 and therefore already uses the Java 1.5 language features. The example from the book is building a GWT based Todo List with different categories, something which is actually quite handy to have. The only negative thing is that I had the feeling that the book repeats itself a bit too often, e.g. it stressed several times how Java programmer can leverage their existing Java knowledge by using GWT. What I especially liked about the book that it follows a tutorial style building the whole application step-by-step. The book is also very successful in demonstrating how certain conceptional approaches, e.g. separation of concern and testability can be archived with GWT. Overall a very good book which makes learning the basic GWT very easy.
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