Kelly Norton (Google, Inc.), Miguel Mendez (Google, Inc.)

AJAX applications are all the rage these days. And why not? They're simple to use, accessible from anywhere, free of sneaky installers and generally safer from the malware gremlins. But behind every good web app, there's a group of exhausted AJAX developers driven to the brink of madness with worry of browser quirks, memory leaks and load times. In this session, we'll build a small web app and demonstrate how the Google Web Toolkit relieves the nervous twitching troubling AJAX developers by allowing them to practice sound engineering using Java and Eclipse and still end up with fast, light-weight JavaScript applications.

It is interesting to note that it is sponsored by Google.

Google Web Toolkit: Quick relief of AJAX pain