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Working with the Google Web Toolkit (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted June 1, 2006 by cook]

Robert Cooper looks at the Google Web Toolkit in an O'Reilly article. "GWT is, in essence, a JavaScript generator. The interesting thing is what this JavaScript is generated from: Java. GWT takes Java code written against a special API and converts it into browser-runnable Ajax code. If that weren't enough to make it cool, it also includes a test harness that will execute the Java code inline with a test browser, allowing you to step-through debug, profile and unit test your Ajax front end in your favorite IDE or at the command line."

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Wrong section

Posted Jun 8, 2006 4:58 UTC (Thu) by ttfkam (guest, #29791) [Link]

Shouldn't this be in a Java section, not a JSP section?

And the news would be ...?

Posted Jun 13, 2006 4:50 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

GWT takes Java code written against a special API and converts it into browser-runnable Ajax code.

So they've reinvented XML11, except not the X11 part and maybe not the X-like, XML-based widget/downloadable-code protocol? OK, full points for the debugger, but otherwise...I dunno. Maybe I just need to see a demo or something (which I did for XML11), but what I'm gleaning from the article doesn't do much for me.

Greg