The main focus of Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT is an analysis of a full-fledged Web 2.0 application called GWT College Bound. This book is for people who are looking to get beyond small proof-of-concept sample applications and want to see what the guts of a full-fledged Google Web Toolkit application should look like.
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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 Google Web Toolkit has fundamentally altered the feasibility of large Web 2.0 applications.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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If you are looking for an architect-level view of how GWT can best be leveraged by your enterprise projects, Pro App Development with GWT is a great resource. The book goes through the steps in designing a robust Web 2.0 application using Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, and GWT. The finished application can be viewed online at www.tocollege.net.
For developers like myself who have worked with small-scale GWT projects, this book directly answers many of the issues that one encounters when scaling up the project. Examples of these issues are: the most effective way to pass Hibernate classes back to the client using GWT, and how to most efficiently handle a large project through either single (or multiple) modules.
Please note that this book will not teach you GWT; if you are not familiar with GWT, other books (or even the GWT website) would be superior resources.
The only two issues I had with this book were:
* It would be nice if there was chapter-by-chapter source code available so you could more easily mimic the steps in creating the application. Matching the chapter-by-chapter progress to the final source code was a little tedious.
* The author's choice of technologies for the back-end is great (Spring, Hibernate, FreeMarker templates), but if you are an EJB/JBoss/Seam/Wicket shop, you will be doing a lot of translation from the Spring-domain to your particular choice of technology.
Overall, this book is highly recommended and will make deploying GWT much easier on medium and large-scale projects. The author has done a great job in solving common GWT problems; issues that an enterprise architect will surely encounter when using GWT.
For developers like myself who have worked with small-scale GWT projects, this book directly answers many of the issues that one encounters when scaling up the project. Examples of these issues are: the most effective way to pass Hibernate classes back to the client using GWT, and how to most efficiently handle a large project through either single (or multiple) modules.
Please note that this book will not teach you GWT; if you are not familiar with GWT, other books (or even the GWT website) would be superior resources.
The only two issues I had with this book were:
* It would be nice if there was chapter-by-chapter source code available so you could more easily mimic the steps in creating the application. Matching the chapter-by-chapter progress to the final source code was a little tedious.
* The author's choice of technologies for the back-end is great (Spring, Hibernate, FreeMarker templates), but if you are an EJB/JBoss/Seam/Wicket shop, you will be doing a lot of translation from the Spring-domain to your particular choice of technology.
Overall, this book is highly recommended and will make deploying GWT much easier on medium and large-scale projects. The author has done a great job in solving common GWT problems; issues that an enterprise architect will surely encounter when using GWT.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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This book is not about Application Development with GWT, it's about developing a web 2.0 site. Jeff takes you step by step through his process of developing www.tocollege.net, and frankly the site implementation is a little sloppy.
He covers his decision making process for the full stack and gives outlines of Maven, Acegi, Compass, Hibernate, Spring MVC, SiteMesh, FreeMarker as well as GWT and Gears. That's a lot to cover in around 400 pages. In fact I have 2 books on my desk that cover just Hibernate and Spring that weigh in at over 700 pages each, so obviously he doesn't go into much depth, but he does point you to online resources to dig deeper.
Because this book is not about developing a web 2.0 application using gwt (like it says on the cover) but it's actually about developing a web 2.0 site this means there is no discussion of integration with Javascript Libraries like gwtext, extgwt or Dojo, but it does discuss SEO and integration with Google maps for example.
Jeff does a decent job of covering some of the key pinch points and offers some good advice which is why I'm not giving this book 1 star.
He covers his decision making process for the full stack and gives outlines of Maven, Acegi, Compass, Hibernate, Spring MVC, SiteMesh, FreeMarker as well as GWT and Gears. That's a lot to cover in around 400 pages. In fact I have 2 books on my desk that cover just Hibernate and Spring that weigh in at over 700 pages each, so obviously he doesn't go into much depth, but he does point you to online resources to dig deeper.
Because this book is not about developing a web 2.0 application using gwt (like it says on the cover) but it's actually about developing a web 2.0 site this means there is no discussion of integration with Javascript Libraries like gwtext, extgwt or Dojo, but it does discuss SEO and integration with Google maps for example.
Jeff does a decent job of covering some of the key pinch points and offers some good advice which is why I'm not giving this book 1 star.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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I was working on GWT in 2007 and looking for such book. Instead you post and post on forum to collect information about using GWT (1.4 days) with Hibernate and spring. It has other techniques that you learn while developing website but it is readily available in this book with GWT 1.5 support.
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a comprehensive, practical guide to GWT development
I recently started a job at a GWT shop, and I picked this book up on a friend's recommendation.
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Published on April 30, 2009 by A. Graves
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This book has some topics that were very appealing to me such as integrating Spring, Hibernate, security, and page templates with GWT. Read more
Published on November 30, 2008 by Paul C
didn't meet expectations
You can learn things here and there from this book but:
1) not an easy read since it constantly references external sources
2) talks about many things but doesn't... Read more
1) not an easy read since it constantly references external sources
2) talks about many things but doesn't... Read more
Published on November 29, 2008 by Ramin
a must read for any gwt developer
A fantastic book for anyone needing to get down and dirty with GWT. It's to-the-point and chalk-full of practical wisdom. Read more
Published on June 22, 2008 by Neal Cowles
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