*(Cross-posted from the gwt-google-apis forum)* At Google I/O last month, the Google APIs team introduced a couple exciting new technologies to make Google's APIs easier to consume.
The first was the Google APIs Discovery Service<http://www.google.com/events/io/2011/sessions/building-custom-client-libraries-for-google-apis.html>, that lists and describes some of Google's new APIs. The second was a series of generated Java libraries to communicate with these APIs<http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/wiki/Setup#Generated_libraries_for_Google_APIs>, built on the Discovery Service, designed to work with lots of standard Java environments, including App Engine and Android. Today, I have the pleasure of announcing that, in addition to generated libraries for standard Java environments, we are also releasing libraries specifically optimized for GWT, as part of the Google API Libraries for GWT (GALGWT) project. The available services currently include: - Books API - Buzz API - Latitude API - Moderator API - Prediction API - Tasks API - URL Shortener API (goo.gl) - ...and many more - ...and even more coming soon! These libraries are designed and optimized for the GWT platform, and make requests directly from the browser, without requiring you to write any server-side code. They are built on GWT's RequestFactory<http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/trunk/DevGuideRequestFactory.html>infrastructure, and so should look and feel very familiar to anyone who has used RequestFactory in a GWT application before, but without having to write the server-side component -- Google's APIs are the server-side component -- no middle man! You can check out the full list of supported services and some sample applications at the Samples page<http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/wiki/GoogleAPIsSamples>, or learn how to get started by reading the documentation<http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/wiki/GoogleAPIsGettingStarted> . These libraries are alpha libraries, and are presented so that we can gather feedback about them to improve them further. They are under active development and may change in breaking ways in the future. If you use these libraries, please let us know what you think in the GALGWT forum<http://groups.google.com/group/GWT-Google-Apis>, and file bugs and feature requests in the Issue Tracker<http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/issues/list>. We're hoping to continually improve the quality and stability of the libraries over time, and your feedback is important in achieving that goal. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-web-toolkit/-/cGYyOGU2eGZVcFVK. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
