Google has made their AJAX development tool Google Web Toolkit (GWT) available. Instead of focusing on bits of JavaScript to be pieced together, as most other tool kits do, they went a different route.
You develop your application in Java using your favorite Java IDE. You make use of the GWT during the Java development. Since this is a normal Java application at this point, you are running in the JVM and have all the usual rich Java debugging and development tools. Once you have your application debugged and ready to go, you use the GWT to convert it to JavaScript and HTML.
What a really great concept. Plus, since it is written in Java it is available for Windows (2000 & XP) and Linux. Then the published application (in JavaScript and HTML) runs in IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera, all with no special browser handling required on the part of the developer.
I expect we will see a huge increase in the number of AJAX applications in the very near future.
Subject Tags: [Programming] [Software] [AJAX] [Google] [Atlas] [JavaScript] [Java] [Microsoft] [Web 2.0]
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