GoogleWeb Toolkit

Had a look a t the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) in action. GWT is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. I've played around with Javascript but find its lack of modularity a problem and testing a nightmare. With the rise of AJAX, one would like to do Javascript and now GWT lets you avoid the pain. You write your front end in Java programming and the GWT compiles your Java into Javascript and HTML. Very cool.