Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT (Expert's Voice in Web Development)

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 [...] 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.

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 [...]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.

This book has some topics that were very appealing to me such as integrating Spring, Hibernate, security, and page templates with GWT. However, I would not recommend this book because the author is not concise or thorough with key points and details. Your better off just downloading the source code for the project if you want to learn more about Web 2.0 architecture. I read "Wicket in Action" prior to this book and so my expectations were probably set a bit high.

You can learn things here and there from this book but:1) not an easy read since it constantly references external sources2) talks about many things but doesn't cover a thing decently3) bad choice for an example project

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.

A fantastic book for anyone needing to get down and dirty with GWT. It's to-the-point and chalk-full of practical wisdom. The focus is not solely on the technology of GWT (as are most tech manuals), but rather how to really use GWT, and how it fits into the bigger picture of a hetergeneous system.

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.

I bought this book as used, but it was totally new, never opened.as a GWT developer with 7 years experience a found only 30 pages of useful information for me.A big joke, that this site ToCollege dot net which this book was building from bottom and describing - does not exist any more :)I would recommend this book to young GWT developers, not advanced.

私のように、あまり英語が得意でない人間でも、わかりやすくGWTを理解することができます。またGWTのデータ通信や、ORMでの問題に対する対処がコードで書かれているので、興味深い1冊となりました。