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Does your book use JS libs ?

 
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Hi.
I have been looking at your book's TOC and this book smells good , I alwayed liked books that create a complete and working examples (like Art Of Java book) and the projects you choosed for your books are really cool.
But do your book's examples employ JavaScripts libs as Dojo and other libs or you just create your Ajax code by hand ?
Anyway , it looks a great book and it worth a place on the shelf.
 
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From Apress : Technologies covered include Apache, Ant, Ajax Tags, Struts, Prototype, DWR, Dojo, and more. So you can get some practice on existing libraries.
 
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Thanks for the kinds words, and yes, exactly as Satou said IIRC, three of the projects do "naked" AJAX, i.e., no librarues, the rest use one library or another.
 
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Oops, shamefully I didn't notice it
One more point :
Did you consider while writing your book to include a small appendix devoted to Google Web Toolkit ? and how it is fit in the scene ?
(Somehow, I feel such an appendix is a requirement).
 
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Originally posted by John Todd:
Oops, shamefully I didn't notice it
One more point :
Did you consider while writing your book to include a small appendix devoted to Google Web Toolkit ? and how it is fit in the scene ?
(Somehow, I feel such an appendix is a requirement).



John,

One problem with writing a book with the new technologies is that we(authors) write this months in advance so by the time it is published, they can be outdated. It is now like an established framework that has been out for years and does not change. So that is why a lot of developers stay away from newer/changing frameworks so their books do not get outdated quickly.

That is my personal opinion as an Author.

Eric
 
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Eric is right... even though I've only authored one book (working on the second right now... errr, *should* be working on it right now!) I know what he's talking about... with regard to GWT specifically, the simple answer is that it wasn't announced (at least, I wasn't aware of it having been announced) while I was writing the book... by the time it was announced, the book was almost complete and it would have been too late to change it to include GWT.

On a side note, I'm not so sure you would have WANTED me to cover it To me, it's a wonderful piece of technology, as a developer I'm quite impressed by it, but in terms of evaluating for use in my organization, my opinion is less enthusiastic, to put it nicely and I can't imagine ever recommending it. YMMV.

Although, one thing I've learned about the publishing business very quickly is that while you can certainly sneak your opinions in here and there (I think readers WANT you to in fact), it's all about marketing, and if a lot of people wanted to read about GWT, my editor would be pushing me to include it, and I'd be stupid to fight him on that! (my current book isn't slated to use it, but I'm early enough in the process that it could get added... haven't really considered it, but I just may now)
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