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This might be a viable alternative to my recent struggles with Ruby on Rails… (or I might just need to take it slower than a 4-hour marathon of tutorials). I’m looking forward to seeing the functionality added to this toolkit by the open-source community.

What functionality do you think might be added by the community that would make this the “next big thing” in framework-based development?

If you’re not familiar with GWT:

“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. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.

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.”

Here’s a sample widget written with the GWT, seems simple enough…

public class Hello implements EntryPoint {
public void onModuleLoad() {
Button b = new Button("Click me", new ClickListener() {
public void onClick(Widget sender) {
Window.alert("Hello, AJAX");
}
});
RootPanel.get().add(b);
}
}
Looks like those of you who already use Java/Javascript might have a new option out there for rapid web development.

		
				
		


  

    
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