Who's @ Google I/O - spotlight on Google Web Toolkit
Google Web Toolkit, or GWT for short, recently went live with their
1.6 release, which also included a Google plugin
for Eclipse and integration with App Engine's Java language support.
Google I/O
will be rich with GWT content, including a number of
sessions on improving productivity and app performance with GWT.
In addition, there will be a number of external GWT developers leading some of these sessions
and/or part of the
Developer Sandbox.
As mentioned last week, we're giving you a closer look at
developers who'll be presenting or demoing at I/O. Here is a taste of these GWT developers
below. (New to GWT? Check out this
overview)
- JBoss, a Division of Red
Hat
JBoss is well-known by developers for their enterprise open
source middleware. Red Hat developer communities such as the Fedora Project and jboss.org have collaborated with Google
on a number of developer initiatives over the years including Google Summer of Code, Hibernate
Shards, integration with Drools and the Seam Framework and Google Gadgets integration with
JBoss Portal. JBoss will be present at the Developer Sandbox.
- Timefire
Timefire produces highly scalable,
interactive visualizations of up to millions of data points for business intelligence,
analytics, finance, sensor networks, and other industries in what they like to call "Google
Maps, but for the time dimension." Their platform's built on Google Web Toolkit from the
ground up, but also runs natively on Android. Timefire also uses App Engine's new Java
language support for their social charting tool, Gadgets, OpenSocial, GData, Google Maps,
GViz, YouTube Player API, and Protocol Buffers. Ray Cromwell will be at the Developer Sandbox
as well as speaking on 2 sessions - Building Applications on the Google
OpenStack and Progressively Enhance AJAX Applications with Google Web
Toolkit and GQuery
- StudyBlue
StudyBlue is an academic network
which enables students to connect with each other and offers study tools. StudyBlue's website
is built entirely with GWT. According to StudyBlue, GWT allows for complete AJAX integration
without sacrificing usability or integration capabilities. StudyBlue will be at the
Sandbox.
- Lombardi
Blueprint
Lombardi Blueprint is a cloud-based process discovery
and documentation platform accessible from any browser. They've used GWT since early 2007 to
write the client side of Lombardi Blueprint. GWT has enabled Lombardi to focus on writing and
maintaining their Java code, while taking care of creating the browser-specific optimized AJAX
for them. Alex Moffat and Damon Lundin will be at the Developer Sandbox as well as leading a
session, Effective GWT: Developing a complex, high-performance app with Google Web
Toolkit. (Check out Alex Moffat's video about Lombardi's use of
GWT)
Finally, one little known fact - a number of Google products were
developed with the help of GWT. This includes Google Moderator, Health, Checkout, Image
Labeler, and Base.
Don't forget - early registration for Google I/O ends
May 1. This means $100 off the standard list price (and a copy of the Chrome comic book). To
register, check out the latest sessions, or see more developers who'll be presenting at I/O,
visit
code.google.com/io.
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By Christine Tsai, Google Developer Products
