Topic Archive: Google Gadgets

GWT, Gadgets and OpenSocial, Part 2

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 6:15 pm

Note: It is assumed that you know your way around GWT and Eclipse for purposes of this tutorial.

While developing OpenSocial applications can be a bit tricky, getting set up to develop can be a real pain in the neck. For this installment of OpenSocial and GWT, I'm going to go through the basics of setting up a simple Hello World gadget with iGoogle. We'll get into the details of signing up for other OpenSocial containers, testing, and so on, later. Right now we're just going to do the basics.

So, what do you need to build a Google Gadget with GWT for iGoogle? You need the following:

1. The Google Web Toolkit
2. The GWT Google Gadget API
3. An account on iGoogle
4. Access to the iGoogle sandbox
5. Some public server space so you can serve up your gadget to iGoogle

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GWT, Gadgets and OpenSocial

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 5:26 pm

I've been developing with GWT, OpenSocial and Orkut, using the gwt-google-apis project on Google Code (specifically the gadgets subproject). It's a nice enough api that makes it relatively painless to build gadgets in GWT.

This is a bit different from Didier's gOpenSocial library, which was an early success at building OpenSocial gadgets with GWT. But the google gadget library isn't really quite ready for OpenSocial. I've skinned my knee here and there, so I thought I'd give others the benefit of my experience.

So, first thing, how the heck do I get GWT to generate the

line into my manifest?

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