Google I/O and GWT Extreme!

I've been invited to do a session at the upcoming Google I/O conference. The initial idea was to do a presentation on Syndroid, but I felt that was too specific and not generally useful to the audience. What would be useful, would be to cover general purpose techniques in GWT 1.5 to bridge Javascript execution environments as well as high performance tricks. Thus was born: GWT Extreme!.

For those attending Google I/O and want to see this session, I recommend attending Bruce Johnson's presentation on Deferred Binding and Bob Vawter's presentation on Linkers first. In this session, I will go over the following techniques:

• GQuery and compiling CSS selectors at compile time


• The Android Native Interface, packaging GWT applications as Android apps and automatically making calls to native Android Java from within Javascript.


• The ActionScript Native Interface, compiling GWT code to SWF, generating RPC stubs, and making calls between browser GWT and Flash GWT code


• Writing Gears workers in GWT


• If there's time, extreme graphics performance with GWT

As the session is only one hour long, I will not be going in-depth with source examples like I did in my Deferred Binding Presentation, but rather, I will describe the overall architectures and steps needed to achieve them in general terms. I may follow up with more in-depth blog posts later containing source code.

Finally, I am planning to release GQuery (or GWTQuery) at Google I/O, there will be a usable beta-quality build on the project code hosting site.

-Ray