Google Web Toolkit for building AJAX apps in Java

Google has introduced a toolkit for building AJAX applications in Java, though its in beta. It has also supplied some sample applications with the kit.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 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 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.

I plan to explore GWT for the next couple of days and then would be writing on that. Would appreciate your experience on GWT.