Is Google Web Toolkit similar to AWT and Swing

Question

I\'ve looked breifly into GWT and like the idea that I can develop in Java and have the application compile down to HTML and JavaScript. Is the concept behind GWT and AWT an

Answer 1

disclamer: While I do work at IT Mill, this is just for information to the original poster. This isn't marketing spam.

If you like the idea of being able to write Java and get a webpage out of that, you might be interested in IT Mill Toolkit. It's a toolkit for making RIA software on top of a J2EE stack, and it uses GWT heavily.

One of the basic ideas are that the code generated by GWT is just as prone to client-side forging attacks as any other JS/Ajax-traffic. IT Mill Toolkit makes sure that the data is validated server-side too.

The toolkit is also designed in such a way that if you are familiar to Swing, you should have no problems picking it up.