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Delicous introduced a nice little tool called playtagger which allows you to turn links to mp3’s into playable links. That is it inserts a little playbutton next to all mp3 links on a page. Its a nice small script that they’ve released for anyone to use.

This was a perfect solution for getting sound effects in gpokr, which is a texas holdem poker application written with GWT.

Many nice and home-grown websites contain a navigation bar. But without a special design tool a navigation bar is not easy to build because it typically involves JavaScript programming. My idea was to build a simple and convenient tool such that a non-technical person with basic knowledge about static HTML can easily include a corresponding navigation bar in its pages.

Philip McCarthy noted that GWT has a design flow: you have to specify ServiceEntryPoint in your Java code, which constrains the portability of a compiled GWT Web application.

I have been planning to migrate a business application from C#/ASP.Net to the Java world. After spending a lot of time looking at different frameworks, I have decided upon GWT. I have put together a layout and app framework, where I can quickly add pages and interact with JBoss EJB. With only a fraction of the total work done, the file size is already 311 KB. Should I be concerned about the size at all? Are there any guidelines on how to keep the file size under check? At this point, other than this concern, I'm pretty happy with GWT.

What is missing here is GWT! What's surprising is that Google is not using GWT for its critical online service, which almost all of them are AJAX-based or have AJAX veneer: GMail, GMaps, GReader, GDocs, GSpreadsheet, GAJAX-Search, GFinance, GHomePage, ... none of them use GWT! The question is, why did Google develop GWT if it cannot use it? And by the way who is using GWT ?