Reviews for Google Web Toolkit GWT Java AJAX Programming

1. A very light weight book

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, July 12th, 2007

   Bought this sometime back afterthe hype about GWT, and was really disappointed in it's lack of depth. It's okay for really noddy stuff but there's little substance in it (for me anyway).

2. Too many errors and omissions

   Rated 2 out of 5 stars, June 12st, 2007

   By the first non trivial example in the book, less than 50 pages in, I was getting bogged down by all the errors. I went to the books website and found three different errata on a single page. These didn't include the one I found after much trouble.
   
   The same example moves straight from instructing you on the java code, to magically running the application, even leaving out editing the html to make anything actually appear (it is a web app after all).
   
   In order to work out this problem I then downloaded the example source from the website, for Chapter 3 which I am working on, it is incomplete, inconsistent with the text, and has obviously been drawn from a later chapter as it includes voluminous info from more advanced sections which won't allow it to run asis.
   
   This book has obviously been written and reviewed in a slapdash fashion, probably to get it out to market quickly to take advantage of the GWTs recent hype. This does not reflect well on the publisher. I haven't read any of the other books on the subject out there, but they couldn't be worse, buy them instead.