Hi there, I am new to GWT and web design in general. I am required to design a web application that has different kinds of accounts with different privileges(e.g. admin, normal) for my bachelor degree. I searched the web for some time and never found information on how to implement accounts in a GWT application. Good stuff about login and storing passwords securely, but never about the whole thing. I hope you are able to help me.
1. Do I have to make some special arrangements for my page to allow multiple users to use it? By special arrangements I mean e.g setting up classes which handle account stuff, maybe they're already built into GWT. 2. My application uses database functionality extensively(actually it's SQL queries hidden by a GUI, so no fancy algorithms involved), so to ensure that the database can be accessed with multiple accounts simultaneously and remain consistent, do i have to do some kind of threading for the accounts? Do i have to put for each account a new java thread on the server side which handles all methods accessing the database. Of course these methods then must be synchronized. Or is there some easier way to do this(if my approach works at all, haven't tried it out yet)? 3. How can I ensure my user can only see the parts of the page he is supposed to and not the ones he isn't? By what means can I enforce this in a GWT application? My approach here would be some global variable set when he logs in which identifies the user as e.g. admin and then check on every view transition if the user can access this view. Are there any guidelines from Google I was too stupid to find? As you may see, i have put some thought into the matter, but I like to get it right the first time, so I look for feedback on what works and what doesn't. To me it's frustrating being halfway through programming only to realize that the approach I was taking does not work and all the hours were for nothing. So thanks in advance for any replies. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
