google web toolkit - ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/feeds/tag/google web toolkit en Copyright 2012 Richard MacManus readwriteweb@gmail.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:04:00 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.35-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Google Open Sources Two Projects, Contributes to Eclipse Foundation gwt_logo.jpgBack in August, Google acquired Instantiations, the maker of a suite of Java development tools for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). And in September, Google rebranded and relaunched those tools and made the Java Eclipse available for free as part of the GWT.

That move has been well-received, and as a result Google announced today that it is open sourcing two of the projects through the Eclipse Foundation.

]]> Google is donating the source code and the IP for WindowBuilder, the leading Eclipse Java GUI Designer, and CodePro Profiler, an analytics tool that identifies code performance issues. Specifically, the donation includes the WindowBuilder Engine and designers for SWT and Swing - code and IP that Google says is valued at more than $5 million.

The Eclipse Foundation calls this "this is clearly a significant new project announcement, and very good news for Java developers using Eclipse." According to Ian Skerreitt, the foundation's director of marketing, Java is its most popular IDE, with over 65% of those working with Eclipse being Java developers.

Today's announcement is good news for those Java developers, following what seems to be a long string of not-so-good news in terms of open source and Java. For its part, Google says that it hopes that today's move will help grow the open source community around Eclipse. It will also provide the opportunity for other companies to offer enterprise support around the products, something that Google hasn't focused on.

]]> Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_open_sources_two_projects_contributes_to_ec.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_open_sources_two_projects_contributes_to_ec.php Google Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:02:47 -0800 Audrey Watters Pyjamas: Build AJAX Apps in Python pyjamas_logo_nov_08.jpgAccording to the Pyjamas website, many people, when discovering Google Web Toolkit wonder why they can't use Python instead of Java.

With Pyjamas, this is now possible.

]]> Similar to GWT, a Java software development framework, Pyjamas is a cross-browser Web App development API that allows you to write your client side functionality in Python instead of Java.

While it looks like a desktop API, Pyjamas is a stand alone Python to JavaScript compiler, an AJAX framework / library and a comprehensive widget set API.

The advantage of using Pyjamas is that you can write Web applications in Python instead of HTML and JavaScript; rather than trying to fit as much HTML as you can into one page, you can reuse and import classes and modules.

Additionally, the AJAX library deals with the entire browser interoperability issue - you don't need to worry about the browser wars to make your app cross browser compatible for IE6, IE7, Firefox, Safari, Opera etc.

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If you're interested in learning more, the Pyjamas site points to a tutorial, an online version of the Pyjamas Book, and other useful links.

]]> Discuss]]> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pyjamas_build_ajax_apps_in_pyt.php http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/pyjamas_build_ajax_apps_in_pyt.php Web Development Sat, 29 Nov 2008 10:03:15 -0800 Lidija Davis