Working with the Google Web Toolkit

The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is, in essence, a JavaScript generator. The interesting thing is what this JavaScript is generated from: Java. GWT takes Java code written against a special API and converts it into browser-runnable Ajax code. If that weren't enough to make it cool, it also includes a test harness (see Figure 1) that will execute the Java code inline with a test browser, allowing you to step-through debug (see Figure 2), profile and unit test your Ajax front end in your favorite IDE or at the command line.

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