May 18th, 2006 - Written by in Using GWT
So I finally had some time to download the Google Web Toolkit SDK. My first disappointment was that there is no Mac version, so I couldn’t use my brand spanking new mac mini. Oh well. Windows it is.
The first problem I encountered was getting the thing to run in Eclipse. The says:
Just click the green “Run” button at the top of the window to start your project in .
I clicked my green button but there were no launch configurations. I didn’t see any mains or anything so off I went to the discussion forum. I finally found this that discusses my exact problem. Basically, you need to copy your .launch file into your workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches directory. That will cause a launch configuration to show up. Bingo. I’m off and running now.
Update 5/19/06: I did an install of the gwt toolkit on another computer and the launch configuration did appear automatically. Maybe I’m just blind. 
May 18th, 2006 - Written by in News
Everyone was blogging about GWT yesterday and there was some interesting discussion going on.
I also found Brian Johnson and Joel Webber’s presentation slides from JavaOne titled (u: contentbuilder, pw: doc789) which talks a little bit about GWT.
May 18th, 2006 - Written by in News
From the page
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like and 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 incompatabilities 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.
