Well it looks like this discussion is fizzling out, but just in case there are still people actually view this, I wanted to add some other related thoughts.
I started doing some research into this idea, and found some interesting things. Like for one, that there are people much larger than me that not only agree, but are actually already working on the problem. Stanford University has a project team currently working toward creating a new, more-secure, application-friendly internet. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/12501 here is a link to a NYTimes article about the need for a new internet: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html and finally, I just wanted to put this out there. According to wikipedia there are currently well over 100 different frameworks all attempting to ease the ability to create web applications. Most of them are based on either JAVA, or .NET, or Python, or PHP. Of course GWT is one of them. And they are all basically kludges, trying to take the powerful programming capabilities of higher languages, and through a series of crutches and slight of hand, make them presentable for the web. The thing that is obvious is that the need to have high level programming capabilities on the web is great. The thing that, though slightly less obvious, seems apparent is that no one of these over a hundred "solutions" have seemed to quench the developers' thirst. And even if people are happy using this or that framework, when you stand back at look at it, at least to me, it seems quite ridiculous that we can't just cut out all those middle men, and build our applications in one of the appropriate high level languages, and have it work directly on a network. Here's the wikipedia list of web application development frameworks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_application_frameworks Thanks for those who participated in this discussion. I am going to continue to research, and I hope that someday I can see this idea in action. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
