Google I/O: GWT + Roo

Ben Alex - lead engineer for Spring
Bruce Johnson - lead for GWT development

Spring has been acquired by VMWare which has pledged to keep it open source.

The "Perfect Marriage"

• GWT  (front end HTML5)
• Spring Roo (back end)

Touted as "the" platform for building apps on the cloud. 200 keystrokes to a round-trip scaffold.

Springsource Tool Suite

• Free IDE based on Eclipse
• Roo integration

Speed Tracer - Chrome extension HTML5 app - looks amazing 

   * combines all sources of latency, the full round trip, into one tool
   * Spring Insight
   * App Stat (from Google)

Spring Insight - profiling on the backend

Data Widgets for GWT 2.1
* Perform well with very large datasets
* Same widgets run on a mobile device