Writing GWT apps and widgets is not the most difficult thing in the world for developers. But what about mere mortals who want to plug a GWT powered widget into a web page and go? Well, there is hope for these poor souls in the form of GWanTed. Right now it consists of this sparse sourceforge project and the following GWT developer forum post:
GWT is great for developing new rich interface components and with it you can develop your custom widgets easily.
On the other side, in pages already made, I think that GWT integration isn’t so trivial. A small step is needed. Currently, you can’t use GWT widgets directly in your pages, because you need to KNOW GWT (to build an integration module). So, in a way, we’re working for people that don’t need to learn java for create web pages, and like with HTML objects (inputs, by example), it’s easy to think about “portal widgets”. Web designers don’t need to know intense javascript for cross-browser compatibility, and there is where we can help… We hope!
With GWanTed, we have different focuses. We’ve tried to create a base not only for creating web 2.0 apps with a bunch of out-of-box features that we think that will make easer the construction, as well as minimizing GWT’s learning curve.
They promise to have more docs and explanations up shortly. In the meantime, the project page does contain some screenshots.
