Chapter 10. Building the Storefront

This chapter covers

  • Securing GWT applications
  • Dealing with security in the client
  • Building a drag-and-drop system

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Jerry Seinfeld

In the last chapter, we looked at a basic CRUD application for a database of books. In this chapter, we’re going to take that application and turn it into the basis of an Ajax storefront that can sell the books listed in the database. While a basic database of books is OK, you’ll likely have multiple interfaces to your data—a customer-facing storefront for buying the books in the database is a good example.

There are a few things we need to do to the chapter 9 application to make this ...

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