>> so for both of you two, thanks for comingby. so you guys have built a really cool application [indistinct] with technology. first, couldyou introduce yourselves a bit, tell us a bit about your organization, what you havebeen building. >> soliven: sure. i'm steve soliven; i managea web team for intercontinental hotels group. and...>> stucker: i'm bob stucker, i was part of
harris hotel bali, the newly rebranded ine.com website that we'rehere that uses gwt. >> okay. cool. so what did you guys build?what did you do exactly in your product? >> soliven: so most of the website is builtwith gwt. everything, but the header is all ajax and entire gwt application.>> okay. okay, cool.
>> soliven: all the way from the home pagethrough confirmation. >> so as you guys decided on which toolkit,which technology to use to build your application, how did you guys arrive to settling with gwt?>> soliven: it really was on past experience and the difficulty of dealing with javascriptand maintaining javascripts through other websites that we have maintained. it justbecame obvious that there needed to be a better structure and better framework for javascript.>> okay. so some of the features that you had used, gwt 1.5 for example, you know, itwas quite a few years [indistinct] from 1.4 to 1.5 in java. today, in i/o, we talk a littleof which i/o features, there's a lot of cool stuff coming there. what do you guys mostexcited about in using in your own application?
>> soliven: you want that one?>> stucker: well, the biggest ones i think for us is the run async, which is lazy loadingparts of our application, primarily because at the moment our home page, performance wise,we'd like to step it up a bit and we'd like for us to be able to divide our applicationssome more so that we can have that first load be really fast and load the rest of our application,you know, momentarily as the user is interacting with the first page. so that's one of themain things. >> soliven: yeah.>> okay. >> soliven: that's my big one too. i've beenthinking about that one all day. >> for an async?>> soliven: yeah.
>> okay, cool. well, there are other coolthings like client window, image window, i don't know if you guys were to have one, butimage window [indistinct] client, assuming that, they have a lot more function than theother stuff. >> soliven: right.>> they got a lot of new stuff that they're doing.>> soliven: yeah. >> cool.>> soliven: i think we're really benefiting from the fact that wave was built using gwt.so a lot of focus was put on performance, and now we get to benefit from that.>> yeah. >> soliven: yeah.>> stucker: that's a good endorsement for
our effort with the gwt, somewhere in thatdirection. >> yeah. in fact, for a [indistinct] featurethat's going to be in gwt 2.0 which is still not released yet; it will be released in maybeq3 or later. but the [indistinct], you can already get that and wave was built usingthat. >> soliven: we're going to do that as soonas we get back. >> yup, cool. and, finally, for other developerswho are building some other types of applications, some other types, would you recommend themto use gwt or, you know, when would you say that it's a good time to use it.>> soliven: i would say if you're a java development shop, it definitely makes sense. you havethe right skill sets, the benefits you get
from using a java ide. would you add anythingto that? >> stucker: yeah, i mean, gwt does providea new paradigm in terms of client-side application development. so there's a certain learningcurve. and like steve said, if you're, if you're good with java, then, you know, you'regood with gwt. >> right. all right guys, thanks for comingby. >> soliven: thank you.>> stucker: thank you.
>> so for both of you two, thanks for comingby. so you guys have built a really cool application [indistinct] with technology. first, couldyou introduce yourselves a bit, tell us a bit about your organization, what you havebeen building. >> soliven: sure. i'm steve soliven; i managea web team for intercontinental hotels group. and...>> stucker: i'm bob stucker, i was part of
harris hotel bali, the newly rebranded ine.com website that we'rehere that uses gwt. >> okay. cool. so what did you guys build?what did you do exactly in your product? >> soliven: so most of the website is builtwith gwt. everything, but the header is all ajax and entire gwt application.>> okay. okay, cool.
>> soliven: all the way from the home pagethrough confirmation. >> so as you guys decided on which toolkit,which technology to use to build your application, how did you guys arrive to settling with gwt?>> soliven: it really was on past experience and the difficulty of dealing with javascriptand maintaining javascripts through other websites that we have maintained. it justbecame obvious that there needed to be a better structure and better framework for javascript.>> okay. so some of the features that you had used, gwt 1.5 for example, you know, itwas quite a few years [indistinct] from 1.4 to 1.5 in java. today, in i/o, we talk a littleof which i/o features, there's a lot of cool stuff coming there. what do you guys mostexcited about in using in your own application?
>> soliven: you want that one?>> stucker: well, the biggest ones i think for us is the run async, which is lazy loadingparts of our application, primarily because at the moment our home page, performance wise,we'd like to step it up a bit and we'd like for us to be able to divide our applicationssome more so that we can have that first load be really fast and load the rest of our application,you know, momentarily as the user is interacting with the first page. so that's one of themain things. >> soliven: yeah.>> okay. >> soliven: that's my big one too. i've beenthinking about that one all day. >> for an async?>> soliven: yeah.
>> okay, cool. well, there are other coolthings like client window, image window, i don't know if you guys were to have one, butimage window [indistinct] client, assuming that, they have a lot more function than theother stuff. >> soliven: right.>> they got a lot of new stuff that they're doing.>> soliven: yeah. >> cool.>> soliven: i think we're really benefiting from the fact that wave was built using gwt.so a lot of focus was put on performance, and now we get to benefit from that.>> yeah. >> soliven: yeah.>> stucker: that's a good endorsement for
our effort with the gwt, somewhere in thatdirection. >> yeah. in fact, for a [indistinct] featurethat's going to be in gwt 2.0 which is still not released yet; it will be released in maybeq3 or later. but the [indistinct], you can already get that and wave was built usingthat. >> soliven: we're going to do that as soonas we get back. >> yup, cool. and, finally, for other developerswho are building some other types of applications, some other types, would you recommend themto use gwt or, you know, when would you say that it's a good time to use it.>> soliven: i would say if you're a java development shop, it definitely makes sense. you havethe right skill sets, the benefits you get
from using a java ide. would you add anythingto that? >> stucker: yeah, i mean, gwt does providea new paradigm in terms of client-side application development. so there's a certain learningcurve. and like steve said, if you're, if you're good with java, then, you know, you'regood with gwt. >> right. all right guys, thanks for comingby. >> soliven: thank you.>> stucker: thank you.