Best book to learn GWT

Question

Since the Google I/O 2009 is just about to finish I think its a great time to learn some GWT to play with different types of Google stuff (like wave!!!) and try to really understand everything there is to know on its architecture.

I'm a very fast learner from tutorials and books, but since there seem to be different areas around GWT (from how to use it, debug it, host it, etc) I think the best approach would be to read a book about it.

So what is the best book to learn everything there is to learn about GWT?

Answer 1

I've read a lot of free sample chapters from some GWT books, but the one that put me in the right track was Beginning Google Web Toolkit (which I've read entirely). It covers a lot of different topics but one should keep in mind the word "Beginning" in the title. This will give you the big-picture, but you will not gain any specialized knowledge.

For Advanced learning, at this point I wouldn't recommend a book. (GWT is in version 1.6 and as far as I know there's no book covering this version yet.) On the other hand the on-line documentation is really complete and up to date. Nowadays I do all my GWT reading there (and in the Javadocs).

I don't know if Manning is planning a second version of GWT in Action, but if they do, I will surely look at it, since these guys are more into the advanced stuff.

Answer 2

Here is the tutorial that i used to learn GWT.

http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tutorials/1.6/index.html

Also there are a lot of other talks about GWT were on IO this year and last year and year before on Google Developers Day. So, check THIS link

Hope this will help.