GWT for big projects?

Question

My friend and I want to develop a big web2.0 project. We decided to write it in Java because we love it and we are good at it and the other libraries which we will use are w

Answer 1

Your examples (youtube, twitter, wikipedia) are not good candidates for GWT, so if you're building that type of application you'll probably want to stick to traditional server based frameworks like SpringMVC or Spring Roo.

GWT is better suited for applications that would traditionally be desktop based and need to do a lot of processing on the client side such as email clients, games, reporting apps, word processors, etc...