Google Web Toolkit
Writing client javascript is, as far as I am concerned, an intensely irritating, and almost futile exercise. That’s presumably why everyone uses flash (what other explanation can there be?). It almost makes we wish applets had taken off.
GWT to the rescue then - I should love it. And I have played with it for far longer than is warranted by a simple experiment.
There are a few things I think I would want before using this in anger: - A way of using the restricted API with Eclipse. I’ve become sufficiently addicted it IDEs that waiting for the compiler to tell me just doesn’t cut it anymore. - A java 5 -> java 1.4 translator I can use on the code, as a pre-processing step, so I can have generics too. Its not like the API differences are going to be relevant here (see above).
I recommend the latest release candidate - treating the ‘Serializable’ interface as equivalent to ‘IsSerializable’ will make the RPC far more convenient, even if the semantics are dubious at best.
1 comment July 31st, 2007 david