Google I/O 2009 opened today. While I wasn't able to attend this year's event, I have been watching for interesting developments. The first I've seen is this post on the Chromium Blog. Google's plan is for extensions to the Chrome browser to be web pages written in HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. Chrome will provide a JavaScript API for extensions and Google will provide a service for extension hosting, discovery, and automatic updates. How long before we see a GWT wrapper for the Chrome extension API?
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Google I/O 2009
Google has announced Google I/O 2009, Developer Conference. I attended last year's event and I hope to go again this year. There will be sessions on App Engine, Android, Chrome, GWT, and other topics.
At I/O '08 I had the great pleasure of meeting members of the GWT team including Bruce Johnson, Sumit Chandel, and Miguel Mendez, as well as fellow GWT application developers. That was the first time I'd attended a developer conference and I found it completely worth the time and effort (I had to fly across the country to attend).
GWT in Eclipse
I came across this video last week. It's a presentation by Bruce Johnson, Technical Lead for the Google Web Toolkit on developing GWT applications with the Eclipse IDE. The first part of the presentation covers some basic introduction to GWT, followed by a little more detail on the inner workings of JSNI and hosted mode. The part I found most interesting was Bruce's discussion of the Eclipse plugin for GWT that Google has been working on internally but has not, as of yet, released to the general developer population. Some Q&A finishes out the session, as usual.
We've seen teasers about the plugin before on the GWT forums on Google Groups and some of the Eclipse project configuration files in SVN contain references to a "gwtNature" in a com.google package. This presentation went a tantalizing step further and included actual demonstration of the plugin's JSNI syntax highlighting and refactoring abilities, among other things. I wish we could get our hands on an early release version of the plugin, even an alpha or pre-alpha quality, just to try it out. So far, I haven't seen any firm commitment to a release date.
Several other informative presentations on GWT were given at Google I/O back in May. The GWT sessions are listed in the "APIs & Tools" track. The live sessions were a pleasure to attend and I highly recommend the videos, which I've referred back to on occasion since.
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