Acknowledgments

Writing a book is never a solitary pursuit, and this book is no different. Many people had a hand in taking this book from conception to bookstore shelves.

First, we would like to thank Kelly Norton from Google. Kelly is a Google engineer who works on Google Web Toolkit (GWT), and his contribution to this book cannot be understated. Kelly gave us excellent review comments and insights that only a GWT engineer could have provided. He was instrumental in helping us modify our raw code samples into refined examples that illustrate best practices and take advantage of GWT nuances. In fact, many of the tips in this book are directly attributable to Kelly’s comments.

We would also like to thank our other reviewers, who provided valuable feedback ranging from comments on subject matter that gave us more thorough coverage to coding suggestions that helped to increase the quality of the book’s code: Henry Crutcher, Ido Green, Thad Humphries, Jeff Kurtz, Shailesh Mangal, Ted Neward, Sang Shin, and Dick Wall. We also received great comments from Robert Kuhar and the other folks at the WingDings Book Study Group.

We are also very grateful to Anthony Francavilla and Dan Moore. Anthony is CTO of Colorado Homefinder, which maintains a real estate website (www.cohomefinder.com). That website is a Struts application, implemented by Dan, with embedded GWT widgets. Anthony and Dan were gracious enough to give us the code for their mortgage calculator, which we use in the last solution of this book on integrating the GWT with legacy code.

Once again, Mary Lou Nohr was our technical editor, and as always, she not only polished our writing, but also taught us how to be better writers the next time around. It’s because of Mary Lou that we now know things like: “Compound subjects modified by ‘each,’ ‘every,’ or ‘many a’ require a singular verb. When each follows a plural subject, the verb is plural.” Thanks, Mary Lou.

Finally, we’d like to thank the folks at Prentice Hall who were instrumental in making this book a reality. Greg Doench, our Signing Editor, orchestrated the many moving pieces necessary to bring everything together; Christopher J. Zahn, Ph.D, our Development Editor, who helped us with the book layout; and Kristy Hart, Senior Project Editor, who took the book through production.