Building Mobile and Enterprise Apps with HTML 5 and Google Web Toolkit

The browser has become an increasingly important platform for enterprise development, and GWT has long appealed to developers looking to migrate desktop apps to the Web. There are still limitations of Web apps vs. desktop apps, but HTML 5 has addressed many of these.

This session will primarily cover HTML5 features of interest to mobile and enterprise developers, including the FileSystem API and desktop-like file handling, AppCache, local storage, GeoLocation, and determining device form factor. We'll also take a look at Maven integration and new features in the latest Google Plugin for Eclipse.

About David Chandler

David Chandler works with the Google Developer Tools Team in Atlanta. An electrical engineer by training, Chandler got hooked on developing database Web applications in the days of NCSA Mosaic and has since written Web applications professionally in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh, ColdFusion, Java, JSF, GWT, and Dart. Prior to joining Google, Chandler worked on Internet banking applications with Intuit and launched a non-profit startup built with GWT and AppEngine. Chandler holds a patent on a method of organizing hierarchical data in a relational database and blogs about Java Web development at turbomanage.wordpress.com.

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