Most modern dynamic web applications are written in Ajax. Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) is a web development technique for creating interactive, browser-based web applications. The intent is to make web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes. This is meant to increase the Web page's interactivity, speed, and usability. Unfortunately, differences in the JavaScript language between browsers, along with major differences in the document object model, can make coding these clients very difficult.
The Google Web Toolkit streamlines creation of Ajax applications and enables developers to work in the Java programming language. GWT (Google Web Toolkit) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile. GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.
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Professional development tools are needed to complement any application framework. GWT Designer™ is a set of Eclipse based development tools that enables Java developer to quickly create Ajax web applications using the GWT framework. GWT Designer empowers developers to quickly create the user interface elements that comprise a Rich Internet Application (RIA) that is based on Ajax technology. GWT Designer gives developers complete control over user interface construction through intuitive visual design, code generation, and access to the rich and high performance Google Web Toolkit framework.
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