Just saw on Slashdot another review of the book GWT in Action. The reviewer, Michael Ross is quite a bit more negative about the book than previous reviews. Although he thought the book was full of practical information, he found the book to be disjointed and disorganized.

The coverage of topics is generally quite thorough, though at times verbose and redundant — particularly in Chapter 2, though it is certainly not limited to that chapter. The second and third paragraphs in Chapter 3, for instance, continue the repetitious style which is found in many places throughout the book, and likely has made it longer than necessary.

The review is quite long and thorough so check it out if you’re interested in purchasing the book.

Just read on the that GWT 1.4 has dropped its beta tag and the final is now available for download. Congratulations to all the GWT developers for all their hard work!

theClassConnection, is an online community, for students that allows them to easily manage their classes. Students can organize study groups, find tutors, store their files online and even study using the online flashcards. The site is built entirely with GWT as a single html/javascript file.

I tried the site out, and the interface is pretty cool. It makes good use of the Scriptaculous and Lightbox javascript libraries. I didn’t see much of the “community” aspects of the site, but that’s probably expected for such a recent launch.

Over at the Ajaxian, Dion Almaer has a short interview with Chris Klundt, the creator of theClassConnection. He even created a short video walking through some of the aspects of the site.