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Pierre Mage :

A great news for GWT users: Google just announced a release candidate of Google Maps API for GWT. It is a nice API that not only gives access to Google Maps API from GWT but also allows to add GWT widgets to Map! But that is not all. This library is just part of Google API Libraries for GWT which is not limited to Google Maps. It also gives access to Gears (I use this part in the project I am currently working for), Gadgets and Google AJAX Search API.
I join GWT teams to invite you to test and comment on this libraries.

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Tonight, I will be in London for the QCon. If some of you are there, it could be nice to meet.

On Friday, I will explain why I believe in GWT and Gears. Here is the summary of my session :

GWT + Gears, the browser is the platform

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework that proposes a new way of doing web development. Gears is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.

This talk will describe how GWT works, how easy it is, how it increases productivity, how it deals with security, why it produces better and more efficient JavaScript than you can produce by hand. Then we will explain what is Gears, show how to use it with GWT and detail how this two technologies could change the way of thinking web applications.

QCon London 2008

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Dion Almaer

I have seen the huge batches of cell phones that companies keep around to test their applications on. Companies like UI Evolution have come along to try to help out the madness of getting something that works across more than a couple of them.

Not only do you have the problems of handsets, but you also have the network lock-downs and the hoops you have to go through to get an application onto a large set of devices.

Since the iPhone, I have strongly believed that history is going to repeat itself, and the Web is going to win on the mobile.

Enough rambling, Google has just released Google Gears for Mobile

I think that Gears is a good friend for GWT.

Google Gears for Mobile Released

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Ben Lisbakken

Google Gears is an API that is known for giving developers the ability to have their webpage viewable offline. However, it can also be used to speed up your website. In the case of the AJAX APIs, you can use the Google Gears local cache and client-side database to have queries load fast with cached data while requests for fresh data are done in the background.

Caching data using Gears is very simple.

gearsAJAXHelper: Use Google Gears with AJAX APIs for Faster Queries

Source : ajaxian.com

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Chris Fong

Google Gears is a library that enables your web applications to work offline. Currently it consists of three modules: LocalServer for caching and serving up your web app resources (ie. html, javascript, images), a SQLite Database for storing offline data, and a WorkerPool for performing asynchronous operations. My GWT application, GSudokr seemed to be a good candidate for testing out the LocalServer module of Gears as it doesn’t have any complicated requirements like synchronizing back to a server. After reading all the documentation, I was able to get everything working in less than a day. In this short tutorial, I will walk you through the steps I took to get GSudokr working offline using Gears.

Getting started with GWT and Google Gears

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Dion Almaer

We have talked before about Google Gears 0.2. Now, it has been fully released and has been updated on users machines so you can rely on the APIs.

Gears is a good friend for GWT.

Gears 0.2 is in the wild, in production

http://www.flickr.com/photos/96603394@N00/298477892/

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Dion Almaer, co-founder of ajaxian.com, now works at Google on the Gears project. He is an architect, mentor, pragmatic and evangelist of technologies such as Ajax and J2EE. In this interview he gives its vision on Javascript for corporate developers, GWT, Gears, Java & Google,...
It was a real pleasure for me to meet Dion.
This interview was recorded at Javapolis. Permalink !

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Gears has this lovely local SQL database. But how do we get things in and out of it? We could write to the JDBC-like Gears SQL API. But I have tasted Hibernate. And if I'm programming in GWT, then writing JDBC-like code by hand would be like going back to the pre-Hibernate days. And I can't do it. I CAN'T DO IT, I TELL YOU! I can't go back. I WON'T go back!

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