You will not see "Hello World" example in David Geary's book, Google Web Toolkit Solutions: More Cool & Useful Stuff, because it's not a book for newbies. Instead, the authors tell very clearly in the opening of the book that their target is to put GWT developers into the fast lane with practical, non-contrived solutions -- not to help ...

Didier Girard, CTO of SFEIR a consulting company based in Paris which has been developing a number of GWT applications, gave a talk to InfoQ on goals, benefits of GWT and how it is different from Microsoft Volta. Some important points he highlighted about GWT are: GWT is a technology which enables the development of Rich Internet ...

Microsoft Volta was often referred to as a GWT copycat (carelessly). Yes, Volta does generate JavaScript but it does so in a somewhat different way than GWT: while GWT reads Java code and compiles to JavaScript, Volta reads bytecode (.NET IL) and compiles to JavaScript. And Volta uses the existing .Net APIs instead of defining its own UI APIs like GWT ...

Oh, my first thought was "It's silly to add Java to Rails" because normally GWT uses the Java language to generate JavaScript. But I changed my mind after reading Jon Crosby's answers to a short interview from InfoQ: Most of Java's weight comes from JEE, which is not part of GWT on Rails. Client side GWT uses the Java language to ...