Google I/O 2012 - The History and Future of Google Web Toolkit
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it as a primary source for GWT's roadmap, the Elemental browser API wrapper, and statements about tooling like GWT Designer support for GXT 3.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2013 to 2015.
What it is
A Google I/O 2012 session by Rajeev Dayal and colleagues covering the history of the Google Web Toolkit, the new features in the GWT 2.5 release such as Elemental, and the project's future direction. It also includes a guest segment from Sencha about GXT support.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Google Web Toolkit.
What people said
Recommends Roland Beuker · 2013-08 · Stack Overflow · on “GXT support for GWT designer”
The designer is not on the roadmap from Sencha GXT3 (according to the Sencha forum), but at the Google I/O 2012 conference, Sencha CEO Michael Mullany spoke at the end of the "History and Future of Google Web Toolkit" session and twice mentioned upcoming support for GXT 3 in GWT Designer. Check out the session; [this video] At 32:18; "We're also happy to be working on GWT Designer integration for GXT." At 39:00; "Better IDE support and tooling - so there's some support coming in GWT Designer for GXT 3. Our goal is to make it easier and easier to create GXT applications using standard Eclipse and standard IDEs." Google decided that future GWT development will be controlled by a GWT Steering Commit
Recommends user3451822 · 2015-10 · Stack Overflow · on “How useful is learning GWT?”
I maybe a little late to the party... but for future readers... I have been building GWT apps for a little less than 3 years now, so I maybe in a good position to answer the "how easy it is to learn GWT" question. When I decided to write GWT apps, my Java skills weren't as comfy, so my GWT learning journey, was a bit bumpy. By the time my Java was were I wanted it to be, an online book [LINK] by Marius Andreiana, made my GWT learning experience better. The general opinion? From a History and Future of Google Web Toolkit Google I/O 2012 [this video] talk by Ray Cromwell, he describes GWT as a tool to help Java developers develop for the web without learning any extra technologies, testing framewor
Cites Adrian B. · 2013-03 · Stack Overflow · on “How to write(enable) Java code in HTML while using GWT 2.5?”
Here is the Google I/O 2012 - The History and Future of Google Web Toolkit [this video] you are referring too. And here are the slides [LINK] posted by Ray Cromwell.
Cites Manolo Carrasco Moñino · 2013-04 · Stack Overflow · on “Capture video/image using user's webcam using GWT”
GWT 2.5 comes with a new library called Elemental [LINK] , it is thought as a wrapper of the browser API. It just works with chrome, but in a future it could support more browsers. If you are confortable supporting in your app chrome for this feature, you can take a look to this example [LINK] . The source code of the demo is in googlecode [LINK] . If you wanted to support other browsers, you could take the elemental classes as base and modify them to match other browsers. Here is a video [this video] introducing elemental during the google I/O 2012