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Is the Google Web Toolkit Right For You?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sure-why-not dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The recently released Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a comprehensive set of APIs and tools that lets you create dynamic Web applications almost entirely in Java code. However, GWT is something of an all-or-nothing approach, targeted at a relatively small niche in Web application development market. This article shows you what GWT can do and will help you decide if it's the best tool to use for your web development."

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  1. Google takes more ground... by utopianfiat · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our weather-reporting overlords.

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    +5, Truth
  2. Does it have an "I'm feeling lucky" feature? by purpledinoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    Does it have a "I'm feeling lucky" feature, where it will deploy your project for the first time without bugs?

  3. Huh? by r00t · · Score: 2, Funny

    You haven't seen bad OO code? (maybe YOU'RE the bastard who writes it) You don't know how to write good non-OO code? It exists.

    There is an OO equivalent to spaghetti code, and it's fearsome.

  4. Feeling Inadequate by ruben.gutierrez · · Score: 2, Funny

    I had to stop after the third line... "Level: Advanced"

  5. Re:Mingling of server and client code is "unusual" by Alexandra+Erenhart · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I understand why computer science geeks don't "couple". They have a whole different meaning of the word from the rest of the world ;)

  6. Google Web ... by kompiluj · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did you say "Google Web Rootkit"?

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    You can defy gravity... for a short time