The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and App Engine (GAE) Book

This book is designed to give developers all the information they need to develop their own GWT+GAE applications, with a particular focus on some of the technologies useful for building scalable social-media-oriented applications. It is an easy-to-follow guide that shows you how to get the most out of combining the powerful features of GWT and GAE. It provides you with solutions to many of the problems that arise in developing, maintaining, and scaling web applications.

The book introduces you to the features of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and Google App Engine (GAE) to help you build interesting and interactive real-world AJAX applications. Over the course of the book, you are guided by the development of a sample application using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) plugin for Eclipse. To make things easier for you, all application building blocks are explained in detail, walking you through the development process step by step.

The book teaches you the key technologies and methodologies that can be applied to developing your application locally, enhancing your application functionality and accelerating performance, integrating your application with Google Accounts, Facebook, and Twitter as well as monitoring and maintaining your web application.

Along the book, it will develop a full real application used to practically illustrate the concepts explained. You will learn:

    Comprehensive coverage of building scalable, modular, and maintainable applications with GWT and GAE using Java
    Leverage the Google App Engine services and enhance your app functionality and performance
    Integrate your application with Google Accounts, Facebook, and Twitter
    Safely deploy, monitor, and maintain your GAE applications
    A practical guide with a step-by-step approach that helps you build an application in stages

Title The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and App Engine (GAE) Book
Author(s) Google GWT and GAE team
Publisher: Google (2012)
Language: English
eBook: http://code.google.com/p/gwt-gae-book/wiki/TableOfContents?tm=6