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.
