In this session we discuss the pressures of keeping pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Rewriting is expensive, adding Ajax widgets can result in a complex, unmaintainable application, and both require you to hire scarce JavaScript developers.

Now, enter Google Web Toolkit - which allows you to write Ajax interfaces in Java and layer a desktop-like interface on top of your Web app. This session teaches you how to analyze the service profile of your application, to change HTML views into XML or JSON services, and to resist opening security holes by putting state and control flow logic into the client.

In this session you learn how to:

• Use Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to layer a desktop-like interface on top of your Web app;
• Avoid opening security holes by putting state and control flow logic into the client;
• Leverage the GWT SDK;
• Better leverage the resources you have;
• Analyze the service profile of your application;
• Change HTML views into XML or JSON.

This session was recorded at The Ajax Experience conference in Boston, Massachusetts, September 29 - October 1, 2008.