GWT - First nail in Windows’ Coffin
Microsoft so far was confident about Windows since they provide a very easy to use development tools - the Visual Studio. Using those, a developer can create binaries for any variant of the target device without any incompatibilities.
On the other hand, Web-based client development is a nightmare. Opera, Firefox, Netscape, Popups blocked, JavaScript disabled, Coookies Washed, Different Screen resolutions, differing Bandwidths are some of the hostilities a developer needs to face.
Due to this, it seemed quite unlikely that we would see the web development platform offering any serious competition to the thick OS-hosted softwares of Windows.
Ed Burnette reports that yesterday Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) which unifies web-development. Like an MFC of sorts, we will now see many glossed up AJAX developed web clients, since this will really simplify and hasten web client development. You write the code in Java and the hosted eclipse converts it into AJAX based JavaScript.
Do give it a spin.
