gwtapps – desktop and messenger examples

I really like the GWT Apps book by Ryan Dewsbury – I’m probably not alone in thinking that it’s the best book out there for any GUI developer looking to familiarize him/herself with GWT and the world of Rich Internet Applications development. The book is choke-full of various basic as well as advanced examples. The two that I personally find very useful are the Desktop (or rather a light-weight GWT portal) example and the high-performance remote event queuing Messenger implementation. The examples and the book are for the latest production release of GWT – 1.4 – but the source code is actually very easily migratable to 1.5 (it was really breeze when I did this for some of my own needs). If you’d like to try it yourself, I found that the source code for all examples in the book is available in files section of GwtApps’ google group.