Google’s Chrome Browser + Google Web Toolkit = Matching Pieces of the Puzzle
September 13, 2008 by admin · Leave a Comment
Another piece of the puzzle about Google’s Chrome browser fell into place for me as I was doing the research on a development project.
Chrome was built to be run web applications very quickly. During the announcement they mentioned how it was designed to run Javascript quickly.
With this in mind, I started thinking about fast and easy ways to develop great Javascript applications. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I decided to see how Google approaches Javascript development.
Funny thing happens when you search on “google javascript”. Google’s first listing is the Google Web Toolkit aka GWT.
Wikipedia says GWT “is a general set of tools for building any sort of high-performance client-side JavaScript functionality”.
Interesting huh?
Now if I only had a “server” to host, deploy and scale my web apps…
Wait, can you say “Google App Engine” which was released this past spring?
So we now have a great web app development environment, a server to run the web apps and Chrome to display the user interface on the customers computer; what’s not to like?
All good news for a browser like Chrome built specifically to run Javascript well.
PS – Yes, Google App Engine only supports Python for now, “with other languages to come,” but I’m betting in the not to distant future, we’ll see an announcement of a connection between GWT and the Google App Engine platform.
