Google Web Toolkit: AJAX Buzz Meets Real World Development
With its Swing-like development framework and its awe-inspiring compiler/debugger, the Google Web Toolkit eases AJAX development.
by Gautam Shah
July 12, 2006
eveloping AJAX applications is really hard, because few developers have a complete grasp of JavaScript—the language of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). Making matters worst, every browser has idiosyncrasies in its JavaScript implementation, which introduces incompatibility nightmares (See "Sidebar 1. Web UIs of the Past and AJAX's JavaScript Underbelly"). The almighty Google, which glorified AJAX with Gmail and Google Maps, has come to the rescue with the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
What You Need
Google Web Toolkit
Apache Ant 1.6
Apache Tomcat
Java Standard Edition 1.4 or higher
Eclipse
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eveloping AJAX applications is really hard, because few developers have a complete grasp of JavaScript—the language of AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). Making matters worst, every browser has idiosyncrasies in its JavaScript implementation, which introduces incompatibility nightmares (See "
