Google Web Toolkit Now 100% Open Source

chrisd writes "When we first released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) we were focused on building a great tool for people to build AJAX apps with. Now, we're happy to announce that all of the GWT source code is available, including the Java to JavaScript compiler and the debugging browser, under the Apache 2.0 license. If you'd like to see how we pulled off letting you avoid dealing with nasty browser quirks, you should take a look. More importantly, we're running this like a true open source project now: we'll be developing GWT completely in the open, as per our project charter. More info on the GWT blog."

Dang it.

[Anonymous Coward]

Stuff like this makes me wish I could code. :(

Only if you promise to think about the irony

[Ed Avis]

So... you can write your application in Java, but then compile it to Javascript to run inside a web browser?

Re:A step in the right direction...

[Fozzyuw]

Switching theory is considered the "calculus" of computer engineering. And like calculus, it is being dropped from many undergrad curriculum with the assumption that software can best manage this aspect of microprocessor and other digital design.

This has always been one of my pondering points of Star Trek. Where, in the development of the Earth, did they find the time to 'educate' students on the likes of Calculus and 'general education requirements' while also being able to teach them the intricacies of Quantum Mechanics, deflector dish re-alignment, and power coupling re-direction, all by the age of like 18 and flying around on a star ship!

Calculus was pretty difficult enough, let alone the difficulties of studying as a teen-age when the temptations of a holo-suit are sitting in your own 'dorm'. There's enough addiction in games like WoW, I cannot imagine what it would be like on the Enterprise. =D

Cheers,
Fozzy

Re:A step in the right direction...

[s4m7]

Eh, no it's not. The 'box' is the set of standard notions that are currently accepted as the way to do things.

That's what you think the box is. I think it is an actual box, located 15 miles south of Champagne, IL.

All kidding aside, please don't legitimize corporate doublespeak buzzwords by trying to claim they have an actual definition. It's an insult to those of us who are not marketroids.

Re:A step in the right direction...

[breadbot]

You mean Champaign [google.com], Illinois? I'm typing this from Urbana, right next door to Champaign (and just down the highway from storied Peoria), although as a child I lived in the the one and only Oblong, IL [villageofoblong.com].

Ha! A chance to be pedantic! How often does that happen?

Auugh! No, not the off-topic button! The Midwest really does exist! It's made of peeeeeooople!

Re:Ready for professional use?

[larry bagina]

The Macintoth port allowth you to talk with a lithp.

Re:A step in the right direction...

[FlyingCheese]

Oh God, don't say that! You'll break the poor mans heart.