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InfoQ has published an interview of Jeff Dwyer. Jeff is the author of "Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT" :

Learning GWT, if I spent X of my time figuring out GWT I spent 3X that much time integrating it with Maven, Spring Security & MVC, Hibernate & SiteMesh and 5X that time figuring out the right architectural patterns. Plain vanilla GWT is easy. It's the integration details that are complex. So that's what this book is. A walking tour through the 15,000 lines of ToCollege.net source code.

Interview and Book Excerpt: Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT

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Charlie Collins :

I spent a few hours tonight making a GWT in Practice project over a Google Code Hosting. [...] This project includes the sample code in SVN, has links to the relevant GWT in Practice web pages, and has running samples for a few of the apps (for the ones that are only client side code, and therefore capable of being hosted at gCode).

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Lastly, if you have read GWT in Practice and could do an Amazon review, that would be super, super duper. We have had a lot of really good feedback, but only a few people that took the time to do the review - would be nice to have a few more.

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-in-practice/

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Robert Hanson :

According to the JavaOne site, GWT in Action was #3 on the best sellers list for JavaOne. Adam and I had no idea that they had a best sellers list, but as you can guess we are extremely pleased with how well our book did.

JavaOne Conference Bookstore - Best Sellers
Source :  GWT in Action is #3 at JavaOne

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Ajax On Java :

This practical guide shows you how to make your Java web applications more responsive and dynamic by incorporating new Ajaxian features, including suggestion lists, drag-and-drop, and more. Java developers can choose between many different ways of incorporating Ajax, from building JavaScript into your applications "by hand" to using the new Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
The book branches out into different approaches for incorporating Ajax, which include:

• The Prototype and script.aculo.us Javascript libraries, the Dojo and Rico libraries, and DWR

• Integrating Ajax into Java ServerPages (JSP) applications

• Using Ajax with Struts

• Integrating Ajax into Java ServerFaces (JSF) applications

• Using Google's GWT, which offers a pure Java approach to developing web applications: your client-side components are written in Java, and compiled into HTML and JavaScript

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shane :

The well-known computer book publisher Manning has done an early release for 4 Ajax books. The co-author of two of them is the author of Ajax In Action, one of the first Ajax books to come out in October of 2005. The new titles are :

• "Ajax In Practice" by Dave Crane, Jord Sonneveld and Bear Bibeault with Ted Goddard, Chris Gray and Ram Venkataraman
• "GWT In Action" by Robert Hanson and Adam Tacy
• "ASP.Net Ajax In Action" by Alessandro Gallo, David Barkol, and Rama Krishna Vavilala (not available from Amazon yet)
• "Prototype and Scriptaculous Quickly" by Dave Crane and Bear Bibeault with Tom Locke

Manning Releases 4 Ajax Books

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This short cut assumes that you have already installed GWT and have experimented with its basic features. It also assumes that you’re comfortable with techniques like implementing event listeners as anonymous inner classes and know how to construct applications using panels and widgets. Some of the more advanced aspects of the GWT are explored in this short cut using two applications: an address book and a Yahoo! trip viewer.

 Google™ Web Toolkit Solutions (Digital Short Cut): Cool & Useful Stuff

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Bruce W. Perry : "The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a nifty framework that Java programmers can use to create Ajax applications. The GWT allows you to create an Ajax application in your favorite IDE, such as IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse, using paradigms and mechanisms similar to programming a Java Swing application. After you code the application in Java, the GWT's tools generate the JavaScript code the application needs."

Google Web Toolkit for Ajax

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Ajax just got a lot easier.
GWT—The Google Web Toolkit—is a set of APIs and tools that lets developers build rich web applications almost entirely in Java. Creating web applications with GWT feels a lot like coding in Swing or SWT. GWT hides the complexity of Ajax but still gives you control over the details. You wind up with better web apps faster—all without learning a new programming model.
GWT in Action is a comprehensive tutorial for Java developers exploring GWT. It's clearly-written and packed with hands-on GWT examples. Authors Robert Hanson and Adam Tacy will be your guides as you
   • Absorb the GWT philosophy as you build your first working GWT app.
   • Follow a clever dashboard example running throughout the book.
   • Quickly master the basics of GWT: widgets, panels, and event handling. With those concepts in hand you'll really put GWT through its paces.
The book explores the toolkit's RPC tools and JSON/XML support, the Java to JavaScript interface (JSNI), and automatic code generation. As well, you'll
   • Learn useful RPC related patterns including various polling techniques.
   • Handle real-world concerns like internationalization, testing, and support.
   • Leverage Java best-practices for GWTdevelopment.

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