Using Amalegeni in a GWT project

Overview

This 4-part tutorial takes you through the creation of a small GWT application about a Todo list. It starts off using Postgresql as database backend, and in the final part shows you how to convert it to Oracle.

Part 1 shows you how to setup the project, and get your GWT app running
Part 2 gives an idea how simple it is to add functionality
Part 3 introduces procedural sql
Part 4 shows how easy it is to swap out the Postgresql database for an Oracle database.

Prequisites

GWT
Eclipse
Postgresql DB (part 1 - 3)
Oracle DB (only for part 4)
Amalegeni installed and executable
The jdbc.jar files for the above databases.

Assumptions

you use Eclipse as IDE
your PC has Postgresql running,
your PC has an Oracle database running (for part 4 only)
you use 'workspace' as the default workspace directory for eclipse