GWT (Google Web Toolkit) please tell me about this technology and it's future scope....??

AJAX Programming with Java Prior to JavaScript and other client-side languages, Web browsers operated as if they were HTML dumb terminals, merely presenting Web pages generated on a server. For such pages, every user action requires a full page refresh, with a round-trip over the Internet, which degrades performance and thus user satisfaction. It may be fine for a great many Web sites, but it is completely inadequate for high-performance dynamic Web applications. Even e-commerce sites using wholesale page refreshes every time, find that users can encounter all kinds of problems. For instance, e-commerce sites often exhort customers to not use their browser’s Back button while shopping online, and to not click the Submit button twice should the purchase page fail to respond. But what if the network hangs and customer does not know if the purchase went through? Traditional use of JavaScript made it possible to embed functionality on the client-side, with far superior speed, by eliminating network traffic. It was — and continues to be — ideal for such needs as user form validation. But such JavaScript code does not communicate with the server, and thus has no way of accessing application data from a database, or even maintaining state in between page refreshes. Google’s answer to these difficulties, is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), an open source software development framework that allows the programmer to write Java code, which then gets translated into AJAX code. More specifically, the GWT compiler converts the Java classes into browser-compliant HTML and JavaScript code. The key idea is that GWT is intended to make AJAX programming much easier — especially for programmers already adapted with Java.

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