Google Releases AJAX Framework 327
maquina writes "Google released a new AJAX framework based on Java. From Google's mouth: "Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language." This impressive framework promises to make AJAX available to the masses and is one more step towards Google becoming the de facto Internet platform provider."
Google: (Score:5, Interesting)
The best feature of this toolkit (Score:2, Interesting)
I think Google is mostly responsible for launching the AJAX trend, and now they're moving in a brand new direction? Beautiful.
Oh and they even distributed half of the source code for the project in the JAR files.
Once again, Yahoo! is overlooked (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:The best feature of this toolkit (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:The best feature of this toolkit (Score:5, Interesting)
This is sexy stuff, people.
The worst feature of this toolkit... (Score:5, Interesting)
Another downside... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Interesting... (Score:4, Interesting)
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"><html<hea
href="http://www.example.com"<em>there</></>.
Evil?</><p<a
href="http://www.example.com/">is</></></></>
Yes the above code is valid html. Do you speak it?
Wow (Score:3, Interesting)
Take notes all.. (Score:3, Interesting)
YUI (Score:3, Interesting)
This impressive framework promises to make AJAX available to the masses and is one more step towards Google becoming the de facto Internet platform provider."
Erm, actually they're playing catch up. From what I can tell, GWT is rather inferior to YUI [yahoo.net].
Already Been Done (Score:2, Interesting)
Google a Java shop? (Score:4, Interesting)
Any infos?
Re:The license is restrictive.. mods prohibited (Score:2, Interesting)
So do it, get it done in the next two weeks, email Google, ask permission to distribute it and get offered a job.
Re:Another downside... (Score:3, Interesting)
But again, what Google is doing is very common practice in Windows world (and getting quite popular in Linux world). It is by far the best way to keep software updated, and push (actually, really pull) updates and fix vulnerabilities as fast as possible.
Lisp Macros (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:The best feature of this toolkit (Score:2, Interesting)
Opensource and free.. take that Google...
Re:Thank You for clearing that up. (Score:3, Interesting)
I figured that the output would be owned by the user, but the terms initially looked like the toolkit itself was restricted except for the parts you got from other projects.
I opened the tarball and the two jars and have been reviewing some of the files. I see that substantial numbers of the
GWT: Python -- Javascript compiler? (Score:2, Interesting)
I don't know the technical obstacles to doing this (and please elaborate on this if you want), but I think it'd be a useful addition. I'm sure there's lots of people who use Python, but not Java (for a variety of reasons).
Thanks!
Salis