Google Web Toolkit
Java is not my primary development language, but I’m quite interested in it. It is Open Source, it is closely linked with Javascript, is multi platform. Being a C# expert I have no big problems in switching between the two (C# is a copy of Java), but still the development environment (Eclipse) is not so “User Friendly“.
Yesterday I was looking for some Google specification, and I ended up on their Web Toolkit page, and for the first time I decided to download a copy and take a look inside. I have to admit that it seems to be done really well and the javascript generator from the Java source is quite impressive.
“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.”
I have seen the “Back” function in the ajax calls (I know it is still a trick, but it works quite impressively). The only thing I don’t like in the entire project is that for some components the Java Code must be mixed with some layout stuff. As you should have been able to understand from one of my previous posts, I don’t like mixing up different layers, because this can cause some big problems… development issues and mantainability issues…
In the next few days I will take a deeper look to the Toolkit, trying to understand if it is powerful enough to move some of my projects to Java.
Does anyone of you has already tried it deeply? Overall, GWT (Google Web Toolkit) seems to be a really Good piece of software for web development!
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