Errata for Google Web Toolkit

#26688: Why not add a section about the available frameworks.. this would definitely help ppl reinventing the wheel plus projects like mine(rocket-gwt) have many samples which can help when your a newbie.--M Pokorny

#26766: I have really enjoyed the ability to buy PDF versions along with paper versions of PragProg books. Keeping the PDF on my HD allows me to refer back to it when needed, while I can read through the paper version. I stare at an LCD screen quite enough as it is.

The PDF for this one has a background gray, which does look prettier and is probably easier on the eyes on screen, but which becomes a mess when printed on my laser printer. Because I don't like to read onscreen I will probably not buy any mpore Fridays, unless the design changes, or there is an option to buy a "printable version".--Matt Sullivan

#26790: I would suggest describing creating the scaffolding in IntelliJ Idea, too. It's very popular IDE among Java developers, and should be supported more in the book.--Michal Sz.

#26808: It would be very helpful to have chapters about REAL programming with GWT. I'm an experienced Swing programmer and I'm looking forward to see how to write a real web app with GWT, i.e., logon to a web app, how to use menu bars with menus, even with menus disabled or to have tables that provide support for row selection, the use of CSS together with GWT, etc. All these non trivial things. But on the server side there is still room for talking about the important role of "setServiceEntryPoint" and its relationship to the GWT module XML spec and the servlet path, what to do if we have more than one servlet, etc.
--Klaus Berg

#26679: I was a little sceptical paying $8.95 for a book of only 75 pages. Now when I see how little material there is on a page I'm more discouraged. I suggest less blank areas.

#26879: This is a suggestion for anyone else having problems using the Run -> Debug... feature of eclipse.

From section 2.4 - 'Running and Debugging' subsection titled 'Running Inside Eclipse' on Page 9 of my pdf version - 2006-11-28 P1.1.

fyi - I'm on WinXP; Eclipse 3.1.2; gwt-windows-1.2.22

I had the problem by which Eclipse could Run in hosted mode but not Debug. I kept getting an error to the effect 'source not found'. I tried several things and failed including the suggestion on this erratum already - remove the backslash following MyProject\ in the applicationCreator command. What did work for me? Switching my workspace so that this little project was exclusive to that workspace. So, it seems that projects besides this one from the original workspace were somehow corrupting the Debug process for this little test project.

I'm a relative newbie to Eclipse, about 6 months now, so I can't be sure of the cause but I now know at least one solution :).
--Eric

#26957: on page 15 section 3.1, first paragraph under the header 'Hosted Mode' it states you can find figure 2.1 on page 8, but it is on page 12 in the current PDF.--wonkknows

#26958: in section 3.2, on page 18 of the current PDF, paragraph two: consider asking the reader to choose one of the aforementioned ways to compile and implement. Otherwise on page 20, section 3.4 in the first paragraph, the reader will not have or be able to find the referred to 'www' directory.--wonkknows

#26924: While I have found your PDF of the Google Web Toolkit a fairly useful item, there is one aspect that drives me a little mad.

It would be very helpful if you included the imported classes into your examples. For example, I am currently working on building an RPC call but I do not have the class loaded that allows me access the GWT object. So now I have go off once again and dig though the jar files to locate the correct class that needs to be imported.

Thanks......--Gerard Hickey