Last 2 days I’ve been attending a community meeting over here in Belgium. Good fun, and lots of interesting discussions. During one of the talks I had with Hans Verbeeck the topic of the newly released Google webtoolkit came up.
I think it’s interesting technology. Really interesting. In a way you could think of it as Google’s answer to ASP.NET and Atlas. However… there is in my opinion one major flaw in the architecture Google picked: the use of RPC instead of webservices to communicate with the backend. They require you to host a servlet which implements a specific interface to enable communication with the browser client. Sure it works, but please… servlets? Isn’t the world talking in webservices these days?
Oh and Hans… when can I finish listening to the Emperor’s new clothes?