Is it possible to build a Chrome extension using Java?

Question

Is it possible to build a Chrome extension using Java rather than JavaScript? (I use Java SE in Eclipse IDE.)

Answer 1

There is an open source project (that I have not used though) called gwt-chrome that aims to do just that. It lacks a good documentation though.

Answer 2

Chrome extensions must run JavaScript. You can however use Google Web Toolkit to compile Java to JavaScript.