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Vinay has published a nice entry about Google Web Toolkit. In few words he explains main concepts behind the wall.

• The GWT Java To Javascript Compiler
• What Does GWT Do
• The GWT AST Model
• GWT Javascript Code Generation
• How Does GWT Native Javascript (JSNI) Work
• How Does GWT Translate JDK Classes
• What are GWT widgets
• How Does the GWT RPC Mechanism Work

Inside the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

Tim :

I wanted to post some instructions for getting GWT compiler working with Maven2, at least the I way I use it in some of my gwt development. I hope developers using Maven for their build will find this useful, since unfortunately GWT  doesn’t support maven out of the box. There is a third party Maven2 plugin already available for GWT, however I personally find that using raw GWT compiler is rather more flexible.

GWT, Maven2, and Eclipse - living happily together (Part 1)

Ian Bull

A number of people have asked me how I configured GWT and OSGi. Some detailed steps are available here, however, following wiki pages is not always the easiest thing. I have created a small "hello, world" example. You can get the projects here.

GWT and OSGi

OSGi (Article on Wikipedia)

Schalk Neethling

The GWT shell uses a stripped down and somewhat customized version of the Apache Tomcat servlet container as its development mode server. Saying that GWT uses Tomcat is much like saying that your favorite driver drives a Camaro in NASCAR races. It might look like a Camaro, people might even call it a Camaro, but driving it's not like driving the Camaro your local GM dealer will sell you. In this article we look under the hood and see how to configure and use Tomcat 'Lite' with GWT.

GWT: The Development Server - Tomcat Lite

Schalk Neethling

GWT enables client applications to communicate with server resources through its own RPC and object-serialization mechanism. This communication process involves each side of the conversation implementing a very straightforward GWT service interface and sending/receiving special GWT serialized data. The server side exposes resources, and the client side invokes those resources asynchronously.

Making GWT Remote Procedure Calls

The next and hopefully last release candidate for GWT 1.5 is almost upon us. In anticipation, we'd like to really crank up the excitement level and, well, the sheer geek factor of this here blog. If you are new to GWT, you may be wondering what all the excitement is about. Why is GWT different from other framework-style solutions? GWT is more of a tool chain and a baseline technology rather than a particular application framework. So, although GWT has lots of libraries, you can use as many or as few as you find useful. Don't like GWT's UI? You can build your own using the DOM classes. Want to use JSON instead of RPC? It's easy. In fact, it is completely possible to start from scratch and build your own framework using GWT and benefit just as much from GWT's overall approach to debugging and compilation.

Dion Hinchcliffe

So what are the big differences between traditional SOAP-based, top-down SOA and lightweight, bottom-up WOA? In the end, it's as much architectural and philosophical as it is technical. I'll also be clear and note that while successful large-scale SOA on the Web tends to favor REST, REST drives many of the concepts described below, rather than promoting them explicitly. In other words, REST resides at the core of Web-Oriented Architecture, which in turn describes a set of related approaches for creating a robust and bustling network ecosystem of loosely cooperating entities that typically compete for consumption via "architecture of the fittest."

Resource Oriented Architecture = Web Oriented Architecture

12 Things You Should Know About REST and WOA

Stephan Janssen

After the painful multi browser/OS DHTML/Ajax experience, I'm starting to appreciate more and more the GWT strategy.
We have a first GWT prototype of the Parleys.com client. It looks very nice, and it works without tweaking it on different browsers and Operating Systems. So, Google does deliver on its promise, as you would have hoped from the Google brain power.

Stephan is the founder of the JavaPolis conference. JavaPolis is the second largest Java conference, behind only JavaOne.

Stephan Janssen On Parleys.com And The RIA Landscape

JavaPolis conference

Ray Cromwell

The next version of Google Web Toolkit is almost upon us, GWT 1.5, but don't take the minor version bump as an indication of how much it's improved, GWT 1.5 has so many awesome improvements, it would be more proper to call it GWT 2.0. That's one reason why it's been almost a year since the last release.
To celebrate the release, I will be writing a series of brief articles on each of the many improvements of 1.5, hopefully with sample code demonstrations.

Very interesting !

GWT:The Road To 1.5, Part 1

Ben Lisbakken

Google Gears is an API that is known for giving developers the ability to have their webpage viewable offline. However, it can also be used to speed up your website. In the case of the AJAX APIs, you can use the Google Gears local cache and client-side database to have queries load fast with cached data while requests for fresh data are done in the background.

Caching data using Gears is very simple.

gearsAJAXHelper: Use Google Gears with AJAX APIs for Faster Queries

Source : ajaxian.com