Pro Web 2.0 Application
Development with GWT (Experts
Voice in Web Development) by Jeff
Dwyer
A Comprehensive, Practical Guide To Gwt Development
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 The Apress Pro series books are
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professional ladder.
You have gotten the job, now you need to hone your skills in these
tough competitive times. The Apress Pro series expands your skills and
expertise in exactly the areas you need. Master the content of a Pro book,
and you will always be able to get the job done in a professional
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Personal Review: Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with
GWT (Experts Voice in Web Development) by Jeff Dwyer
I recently started a job at a GWT shop, and I picked this book up on a
friend's recommendation.

This book's strength is its comprehensive view into process of building a
complex, interactive site using GWT as a tool. As a professional web
developer, I'm less concerned with having someone teach me the syntax
(because I can google for most of it) and more concerned with getting real-
world advice about how to construct my application. Having an
authoritative source to not only offer solutions for security (Acegi), builds
(Maven) and persistence (Spring) but also show me how all of those things
come together is an invaluable resource.
Anyways, if you don't have much web development experience and are
interested in GWT, you will probably find books out there that more focus
on a comprehensive technology-driven learning experience. On the other
hand, if you are ready to learn about how a GWT application comes
together from start to finish, if you want to know how to overcome specific
challenges, I'd have no qualms about recommending this book to you.
Specifically, I found the sections on hibernate and google maps integration
to be particularly valuable. I really only want to learn the aspect of those
technologies that are relevant to GWT, and having the salient information
handed to me on a platter saved me a lot of time. As a professional
developer, the most valuable information I get is from asking my
colleagues how they go about solving problems, and this reading this book
was a lot like listening to some of the better answers I've gotten over the
years.
Bottom line: If you'd like to sit down with an expert in GWT and get taught
the nuances of the language from beginning to end, there are other books
that specialize in that. If you wish you could sit down with an articulate,
intelligent web developer and ask "How did you deal with X?", then this is
the book for you.
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