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This question was asked to James Gosling during JavaPolis 2007.

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Recently, Google released from beta its Google Web Toolkit. Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Phil and Scott talk to Bruce Johnson, one if its co-creators.

GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML. Bruce talks about how he got involved with the project. He states that while he has always been in development, he believes that the user interface is tremendously important.

Bruce also gives a number of examples of projects that took advantage of GWT. While the discussion is often technical in nature, Bruce is able to clearly define what GWT can do for developers.

Technometria: Google Web Toolkit

Why Dojo? Well, we are targeting the enterprise, where internationalization and security are critical. We believe Dojo is creating the best UI toolkit for enterprise developers.

I'm on vacation. Two weeks!
No Internet connection, no mobile phone, no calls from customers, no cars, no subway, no Paris, just my beloved and my children.
No coding, no pair-programing, no stand-up meeting, no planning games, just cooking, sleeping, reading literature, swimming in lake, walking in forest, building wood hut,...
I will be in my grand-pa farm.

Yesterday I had a chat with Schott Blum of Google, who works on GWT (Google Web Toolkit) and gave an implementation on their Java to Javascript compiler and all the optimizations they are doing there. We talked, among other things, about why Google develops a framework to basically make it easier to compete with them.

I recommend this "I, Cringely" article.  He is usually correct in his speculation and analysis.

Perhaps the title of this entry is slightly misleading, but it comes close to the truth. In this entry I present a guy named Steve, and his announcement that gave me some insight to the future of web development.

A small group of very competent people have produced the Google Web Toolkit, a way for web practitioners, in particular Java application specialists, to program both GUI and backend in a single sway. A feat of no small importance, if you consider that a Javascript GUI is very costly to produce and especially to maintain (it breaks easily as browsers change), and needs permanent attention from specialists of the script. Javascript debuggers are rare and have an hourly rate close to the unit price of those 1975 watch calculators. This must be the reason why GWT has just passed the one million download mark.