ajaxy goodness

Google released the Google Web Toolkit recently, which looks like a very promising way to develop AJAX web applications. The premise is that you write standard Java code, which Google's toolkit will then take and compile/convert into Javascript. This means that you get all the benefits of Java, such as type checking and debugging instead of having to code Javascript by hand and track down lots of insidious little bugs. You also don't have to worry too much about making your app cross-browser compatible because the toolkit takes care of all of those worries for you. I'm definitely going to be looking more into this.