It was a relatively slow news week in the GWT world. Here were some of the more noteworthy things I found.

• Web Service Programming for the Masses, Part II: Developing the RIA - Ryan Heaton shows how to create a GWT app with an embedded Flash component.
• Who needs GWT On Rails? - InfoQ has a short interview up with Jon Crosby, the creator of the gwt-on-rails project.
• Create “Hello World” with IDEA - For IntelliJ IDEA users, developerlife has a tutorial up on creating and running GWT projects in IDEA.
• gwt-jsonizer - This library gives you the ability to “jsonize” your JavaBean objects so you can convert them to JSON strings and back again.
• gwt-ent - This project “aims to make easier to do what you want to do with GWT.” There are some interesting pieces in here including a UI Generator which will generate a UI from your domain objects, Reflection support, and GWT Acegi integration.

I just noticed a couple of new, in-depth reviews of Ryan Dewsbury’s book, Google Web Toolkit Applications. Masud Idris at developerlife didn’t seem to like the book that much. Here’s an excerpt from his book review:

At the end of the day, I found the book to be ok. The book was useful to me and I learned quite a bit from it. It just took forever to get through it due to the average writing and confusing code.

In contrast, Joseph Ottinger at TheServerSide thought the book was excellent. From his review:

Altogether, Google Web Toolkit Applications is an excellent book, well worth the list price of $49.99 (USD) if you’re doing any serious GWT development. It’s well written, very much in depth, and shows application patterns that will be very useful for anyone using GWT, in many cases showing concepts that are very difficult to find elsewhere.

It’s always interesting and informative to hear other people’s opinions. Has anyone else received their copy of the book yet? What did you guys think of it?

Here are some GWT related links from the past couple of weeks.

• Rocket GWT 0.40 released - Lots of new things in this latest version including enhancements to the Beans module.
• Ray Cromwell is looking to setup some hardcore GWT training sessions if there is enough interest. Ray is one of the experts in the GWT community so let him know if you’re interested.
• GWT Conference Presentations Online - All of the presentations from last months GWT conference are now online. I’ve only gone through a couple so far, but they’re quite good from what I’ve seen.
• Google Web Toolkit Applications Book Review - Check out my book review of the latest GWT book by Ryan Dewsbury.
• GWT log 1.4.1 released - This latest release uses deferred binding to handle the logging levels which reduces logging overhead.
• GWT-On-Rails - This project allows you to integrate your GWT client code with Rails’ REST web services.
• MyGWT 0.4.4 and 0.5.0 Alpha 1 released - MyGWT 0.4.4 is the latest stable release while the 0.5.0 Alpha 1 build contains some new features including the new TreeTable and PagingToolBar widgets.
• Gwittir 102: Tables and Flow - Robert Cooper has another article up, showing how to create an iPhone RSS Reader using the Gwittir library.
• Google Web Toolkit Solutions Book Review - The guys at developerlife have their review up of this book by David Geary and Rob Gordon.

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