The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team had an exciting 2009 -- ending the year with a
Campfire One
where the team announced the release of GWT 2.0 with Speed
Tracer.
Developers are quickly adopting GWT to build compelling apps in the browser, and we're excited
that we'll have the following companies demoing their applications and talking about how they
leveraged GWT (and other Google technologies) in the Developer
Sandbox
at I/O:
Clarity Accounting, Dimdim, DotSpots, Entrinsik, Hydro4GE Inc.,
JetBrains, Lombardi, Media Beacon, RedHat, Rosetta, SAS, and
StudyBlue.
In addition to developers from these companies, we'll also have
Google engineers in the Sandbox, talking about how our internal teams have used GWT to build
products like Google Wave.
And members of the GWT team will be hosting a number of advanced sessions at Google
I/O. Here's a quick preview of some of the sessions (there are 4
more on the I/O website):
How can you take advantage of new HTML5 features in your GWT applications? In this
session, we answer that question in the form of demos -- lots and lots of demos. We'll cover
examples of how to use Canvas for advanced graphics, CSS3 features, Web Workers, and more
within your GWT applications.
Modern web applications are quickly
evolving to an architecture that has to account for the performance characteristics of the
client, the server, and the global network connecting them. Should you render HTML on the
server or build DOM structures with JS in the browser, or both? Bruce Johnson -- one of the
founders of Google Web Toolkit -- will discuss this, as well as several other key
architectural considerations to keep in mind when building your Next Big
Thing.
At its core GWT has a well-defined and customizable mechanism --
called Linkers -- that controls exactly how GWT's compiled JavaScript should be packaged,
served, and run. Matt Mastracci
of DotSpots will discuss how to create linkers and explains some of the linkers we've created,
including a linker that turns a GWT module into an HTML5 Web Worker and one that generates an
HTML App Cache manifest
automatically.
For large GWT applications, there's a
lot you should think about early in the design of your project. GWT has a variety of
technologies to help you, but putting it all together can be daunting. This session walks you
through how teams at Google architect production-grade apps, from design to deployment, using
GWT.
If you're a GWT developer or considering
using GWT for your next project, we hope to see you at Google I/O!
It'll be a great place to meet and chat with other engineers, including the team behind Google
Web Toolkit.
