There was a lot of buzz at JavaOne regarding the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). Basically, GWT allows a developer to write a AJAX powered web application in Java!! The Java code gets ‘compiled’ to a set of plain old text files containing your JavaScript code. For example, the GWT will translate your rollover actions written in Java to JavaScript functions. This confused me for a second so I’ll stress again that you compile your web application written in Java to plain old JavaScript and HTML that can run in any browser.

What this means is that if you are a Java developer you don’t have to learn JavaScript and all the idiosyncrasies of every browser to develop a stable and reliable AJAX web application.

To get started download the GWT from Google, configure it with Eclipse, and create a new web application.

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