History and Future of Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

History and Future of Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

The Google Web Toolkit is an open source development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications with Java. Its goal is to enable productive development of high-performance web applications without the developer having to be an expert in browser quirks, XMLHttpRequest, and JavaScript. This video presents a history of the GWT project, the exciting new features in the GWT 2.5 release and where Google plan to take GWT in the future.