So, what is the Google Web Toolkit(GWT)?
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and the new version of AdWords. It’s open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world.
Features:
- The GWT SDK provides a set of core Java APIs and Widgets. These allow you to write AJAX applications in Java and then compile the source to highly optimized JavaScript that runs across all browsers, including mobile browsers for Android and the iPhone.
- You can debug AJAX applications in your favorite IDE just like you would a desktop application, and in your favorite browser just like you would if you were coding JavaScript. The GWT developer plugin spans the gap between Java bytecode in the debugger and the browser’s JavaScript.
- Google Web Toolkit contains two powerful tools for creating optimized web applications. The GWT compiler and Speed Tracer.
- GWT compiles your Java source code into optimized, stand-alone JavaScript files that automatically run on all major browsers, as well as mobile browsers for Android and the iPhone.
- Plugin for Eclipse