It seems to get more and more cloudy in the IT world these days . It's a matter of time before the rain (of applications) starts. When this happen one will need the proper tools, to be able to add his/hers own few drops.
So I though it's about time to start experimenting with Google Web Toolkit. What I like the most about GWT is it's "hosted mode". The fact that Java code changes reflect the GUI right away and one don't have to wait for generate, compile, build, deploy, ... steps to complete is really speeding up the development process.
Since 99% of my projects use Maven the first thing to look for (after reading GWT tutorials) was a GWT maven plug-in. No surprise here - there is one (http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin). The GWT docs and gwt-maven-plugin docs gives a lot of information how to create and build GWT applications. Unfortunately the released version of gwt-maven-plugin (1.0 at the time of writing) does not support hosted mode.
