Google App Engine Java and GWT Application Development: Build Powerful, Scalable, and Interactive Web Applications in the Cloud - Softcover

Guermeur, Daniel; Unruh, Amy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849690448 ISBN 13: 9781849690447

Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd, 2010

Synopsis

The challenges of building AJAX web applications with Java are brilliantly answered in this guide that walks you through GAE and GWT in easy steps. Packed full of useful examples and crystal clear instructions. Overview 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 What you will learn from this book Develop state-of-the-art AJAX web applications with optimized JavaScript using GAE and GWT Explore the basics of using Eclipse via a sample GWT/Google App Engine application generated automatically by the Google plugin Learn how GWT works as an AJAX framework, and why it makes you more productive as a developer Use GWT RPC for easy client-server communication Develop a GWT + App Engine application locally and use Eclipse for "one-click" deployment Construct GWT user-interface elements using UIBinder, so that layout and style information is separated from logic Integrate your application with Google Accounts, Facebook, and Twitter for user authentication and information retrieval Delve deeper, to investigate datastore-related ways to help increase the robustness, speed, and scalability of an App Engine app, and apply these techniques to our "Connectr" application Configure, deploy, monitor, and maintain an App Engine application Approach This is a practical guide with a step-by-step approach that builds an application in stages. Each stage of the application is used along with screenshots to introduce or develop your understanding of how to write powerful GAE applications. Who this book is written for If you are a developer with prior programming

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel Guermeur

Daniel Guermeur is the founder and CEO of Metadot Corporation. Daniel holds a Diplome d'Ingenieur of Informatique from the University of Technology of Compiègne (France) as well as a Master in Photonics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Physique of Strasbourg (France). Before starting Metadot in 2000, he worked for oil services companies including giant Schlumberger Ltd, where he helped improve the worldwide IT infrastructure. Daniel has been developing large-scale database-backed web applications since the very beginning of the democratization of the Internet in 1995, including: an open source software content management system, Metadot Portal Server; Mojo Helpdesk, a web-based customer support application; and Montastic, a popular website monitor service.

Amy Unruh

Amy Unruh currently does technical training and course development, with a focus on web technologies. Previously, she was a Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where she taught web technologies and researched building robust agent systems. Prior to that, she worked at several startups, served as adjunct faculty at the University of Texas, and was a member of the InfoSleuth Distributed Agents Program at MCC. She received her Ph.D. in CS/AI from Stanford University, in the area of AI planning, and has a BS degree in CS from UCSB. She has numerous publications, and has co-edited a book on Safety and Security in Multiagent Systems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Packt Pub Ltd
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1849690448
• ISBN 13: 9781849690447
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 461