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GWT Designer helps kick start your GWT development. GWT Designer™ is a GUI creator that supports GWT. Use GWT Designer's visual tools and wizards, and Java code will be generated for you. You don't need to write any lines of Java code, but you can fully edit the resulting Java if you wish. Below are the list of features cited - " GWT Designer™ from Instantiations is powerful, easy-to-use, and bi-directional. With its WYSIWYG tools, you can easily: - add controls using drag-and-drop. - add event handlers to your controls. - change various properties of controls using a property editor. - change and refactor its generated code and see it immediately in the visual designer. - reverse engineer code created by hand. " So, don't wait to try it out here . It comes with a 15 day trial period, which I believe is enough time frame to get you hooked. Yow will soon find out its worth the effort. Just download the 90 MB installer and point it to your favorite eclipse insta...

Have fun exploring the following sites - The KamiCrazy development blog The official iPhone development site Idevgames  - a developers site Iphonedevsdk  - a community development forum Mobile Orchard  - information and useful blog posts  148apps  - an app review site

So you have experienced Panels, Widgets and Event Listeners in AWT and Swing. And found the concept is pretty much similar in GWT as well. The differrence comes with the intent - Think of GWT and think of Javascript and HTML as Assembly language and GWT as a sort of High level language which generates Javascript and HTML. Moreover, AWT/Swing are used for desktop Java apps or applets and both require JVM to run as opposed to GWT that is targeted for building web apps that run on browsers and are look-alike of desktop apps

Anonymous / Inner Classes in Java are quite famous, with event handlers. Closures in JS are similar, not quite the same. Closures are expressions, usually functions, which can work with variables set within a certain context. Or, to try and make it easier, inner functions referring to local variables of its outer function create closures. Read it here as explained quite nicely by Morris Johns.

An excellent read about how to make an otherwise class-less java script emulate classes. Read it here . -Thanks Morris

Wow !!! this is truly a cheezy technological innovation by folks at Google and little known "Open Alliance" group. Read more about it here or Watch it here.

GWT is headed by Bruce Johnson. JQuery by John Resig. Prototype by Sam Stephenson. Script.aculo.us by Thomas Fuchs Ajax by James Garret of Adaptive Path. Dojo by Alex Russel