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2008,May,29 10:25:21

Google upgrades Toolkit.

At the Google I/O developer conference in San Francisco, the search giant announced a new version of its Web development kit and opened up its hosted Google App Engine to more developers. Web applications written with Google Web Toolkit 1.5, which now supports Java 5, will run 1.2 to two times faster, said Bruce Johnson, Google's engineering manager. The toolkit is a step toward making the Web -- not Windows, Mac or Linux -- the computing layer that developers are concerned with. Now there is going to be no question any more whether you're going to target the browser or a desktop application. For almost any new exciting app, we are going to target the browser. Google Web Toolkit helps developers quickly create Web applications by serving as a translation device between Java code and the JavaScript language built into browsers.  With support for Java 5, Google Web Toolkit reduces the chances of programming errors and enables faster JavaScript. The new version supports Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple's Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Webkit, on which the browsers on Apple's iPhone and Google's Android are based.

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