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Pierre Mage :

With Google Chrome release, Didier Girard announces on onGWT : "the browser is the platform".

But the platform is not dead yet. For instance, GWT in the AIR just released its Milestone 1 version. A quick reminder: the aim of this project is to allow the development of AIR applications, i.e. desktop applications running on top of the Adobe AIR runtime, from GWT code.

GWT in the AIR makes the Adobe AIR API available for GWT using JSNI. This project also provides tools to ease "GWT in Adobe AIR" development includint test tools. The weakness of this project is its lack of documentation but it seems to be progressing. For the moment, the showcase and Adobe AIR documentation should be your starting points.

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I'm with Kevin Hoyt from the Adobe Evangelist team. I have given him my small GWT Keyboard Warrior application. He has transformed it in a AIR application in 1'.
Just try it : AIR Keyboard Warrior in GWT
Kevin Hoyt

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ChrisDinDin

However AIR’s Html part is consideredly weak, it’s just a webkit browser and that’s all. It doesn’t promise to control the web content and functionality and solve the Ajax problems that we experienced, e.g. history, keyboard, browser compatibility, security, etc. In this point, why not let us introduce the ready & matured solution - GWT - to handle this part?

GWT is certainly one of the best technology for building the HTML part of an AIR application.

GWT+AIR, will it happen?

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adobe.com :

The new Adobe AIR runtime enables Ajax developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy on the desktop. AIR applications run across operating systems on the WebKit HTML engine and are easily delivered using a single installer file. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use their existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web.

I think it is possible to run a GWT application on the AIR runtime. I would be interested to know anyone's experience in implementing it.

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/develop/ajax/

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