10. Working with Servers

All Internet applications have security concerns, and your GWT application won’t be able to elude them. In this chapter we consider important security terms and methods, and then go on to applying them for safe (or, more precisely, safer) communications with your server.

The Challenges to Meet

We cannot study possible solutions to security problems without having an understanding of the situations we’ll face, so let’s start by considering what are our objectives (or what do we mean by security), which tools we may apply, and how to use them with GWT.

This chapter will differ a bit from the rest of the chapters in the book, inasmuch we’ll be showing code fragments, which implement the described ideas, rather than whole ...

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