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[hjalfi]

This might be of interest to someone --- the Google Web Toolkit. Brief summary: write your application in Java. Test it in Java. Run it in Java. Once it's done, statically compile it to _javascript_ using the supplied tool, deploy it, and run on a client's web browser. More detailed overview. There's a rich set of components available --- see the Kitchen Sink demo for the full list; lots of RPC goodness for communicating with your host server; there' s big and vibrant developer community... did I mention yet that your application runs on the web browser, not on the server? So that interacting with the application only hits the server when it requests information? Oh, yeah, it's got extensive Eclipse integration too. Very, very neat. The GWT compiler is closed-source, but all deployed code is Apache 2.0 and there are no restrictions on what you can do with it.