1.4. Summary
In this chapter we provided an overview of what GWT has to offer, ranging from an optimizing compiler, to a rich widget set, to tools for dealing with popular data formats like JSON and XML, to communicating with the server and managing history.
Tools are great, but the takeaway we want you to have from this chapter is that GWT is more than a tool for writing JavaScript applications in Java. GWT is a platform with which you can build extraordinary, complex applications that run in the browser without any proprietary plug-ins.
But this isn’t anything new. The truth of the matter is that browsers have had support for Dynamic HTML and making remote calls for a decade, yet we see few large browser-based applications outside of those ...
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