Features
- Dynamic and reusable UI components: programmers can use pre-designed classes to implement otherwise time-consuming dynamic behaviors, such as drag-and-drop or sophisticated visual tree structures.
- Simple RPC mechanism
- Browser history management
- Support for full-featured Java debugging
- GWT handles some cross-browser issues for the developer.
- JUnit integration
- Support for Internationalization and localization
- HTML Canvas support (subject to API changes)
- The developers can mix handwritten JavaScript in the Java source code using the JavaScript Native Interface (JSNI).
- Support for using Google APIs in GWT applications (initially, support for Google Gears)
- Open-source
- The developers can design and develop their application in a pure object-oriented fashion, since they're using Java (instead of JavaScript). Common JavaScript errors, such as typos and type mismatches, are caught at compile time.
- The JavaScript that the GWT compiler generates can be tailored to be either unobfuscated and easy to understand or obfuscated and smaller to download.
- A number of libraries are available for GWT, by Google and third parties. These extend GWT's features.
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