Google Web Toolkit Applications

Accelerate and Simplify Ajax Development with Google Web Toolkit

Get the edge you need to deliver exceptional user experiences with Google™ Web Toolkit Applications, a guidebook that provides web developers with core information and instructions for creating rich web applications. Whether you’re a developer who needs to build a high-performance front end for Java, PHP, or Ruby applications, or to integrate with external web services, this resource from expert Google Web Toolkit (GWT) developer Ryan Dewsbury delivers the in-depth coverage you’ll need.

In this valuable book, insider Ryan Dewsbury provides instructions for using the robust tool set and gets you on your way to creating first-class web applications by providing a comprehensive overview of GWT technology. In addition, he shares his “in-the-trenches” insights on

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  Building elegant and responsive user interfaces with Cascading Style Sheets and GWT’s Widgets and Panels
  
  
  
  
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  Creating seamless user experiences through asynchronous communication with HTTP, REST, JSON/JSONP, and RPC Interoperating with web standards–such as XML, RSS, and Atom–and web services–such as Google Maps, Amazon Books, Yahoo! Search, Flickr, and Blogger
  
  
  
  
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  Overcoming browser security restrictions, such as HTTP’s two-connection limit and the Same-Origin policy
  
  
  
  
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  Accelerating development, using software engineering, code generation, internationalization, application patterns, and Java tools
  
  
  
  
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  Deploying for optimal performance with resource compression and caching
  
  
  
  
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  Building five non-trivial applications: a gadget application with a rich drag-and-drop interface, a multi-search application that makes requests to many search engines, a blog editor application for managing entries across multiple blogs, a web-based instant messenger, and a database manager for a traditional web page
  
  
  
  

This practical guide to GWT introduces you to the technology; provides techniques, tips, and examples; and puts you on the road to delivering top-notch user experiences for your web applications.

About the Author

Ryan Dewsbury is a developer, architect, and consultant who started working in C++ and Java in 1998 and has used GWT since its first release. His recent projects include developing software applications with GWT (most notably gpokr.com and kdice.com). As a consultant, Ryan helps companies develop great online user experiences using cutting-edge software.

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The Semantic Web: A guide to the future of XML, Web Services and Knowledge Management

The Semantic Web is an extension of the current Web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation."
—Tim Berners-Lee, Scientific American, May 2001

• This authoritative guide shows how the Semantic Web works technically and how businesses can utilize it to gain a competitive advantage
• Explains what taxonomies and ontologies are as well as their importance in constructing the Semantic Web
• Companion Web site includes further updates as the framework develops and links to related sites 

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