What does Google use GWT for?

[Christopher]

I think that GWT is great. I'm in the throws of writing my first GWT
app.

I remember thinking the same about OpenDoc i.e. that it was great. I
was also in the throws of writing my first OpenDoc app when Apple and
IBM dropped further development. Since then my rule of thumb has been
to only use programming frameworks and toolkits from platform vendors
if they use them to develop applications on their own platforms.

The question from me then is, "what does Google use GWT for?".

Cheers,
-C

[charlie...@gmail.com]

Checkout, Base, and Mashup Editor are now GWT built (at least some
portion).

http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2007/07/google-mashup-editor-built-with-gwt.html

[LoneWolf]

I heard Google uses GWT for GMail and Google Reader but waiting for
official confirmation from Google...

[Isaac Truett]

GMail was not written with GWT.

[mP]

Gmail is not written in GWT, a simple examination of the source will
prove this. Apps like GMail may very well have been the inspiration
and cause of identifyin the very problems that GWT is trying to
abstract for developers.

[LoneWolf]

Maybe Google isn't using our GWT, maybe they have their own GWT which
they will never open source it...
I'm not that stubborn. ;)

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

GMail (and to a lesser extent reader) were developed and released
before GWT even existed. Ergo, gmail doesn't use GWT at all. Duh*.

However, gmail was one of the greater inspirations for GWT. Many of
the lessons learned have ended up in GWT and if google were to build a
web-based mail app all over again, they'd be idiots not to use GWT.
GWT was intended almost exactly for that sort of thing.

*) I have no clue if 'gmail 2.0' is GWT based. I don't think it was a
total rewrite so I doubt it, but could be.

-- just a GWT contributor, not a google spokesperson.

[Riff Almighty]

"Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development
framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and
Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second
language"

from http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/

--
Riff Almighty

<i>Death solves all problems. No man, no problem (Joseph Stalin)</i>

[Isaac Truett]

Are you suggesting that to be proof that GMail and Google Maps were
written with GWT? If I said that "Arcomet* cranes are construction
equipment which make building large structures like the pyraminds in
Egypt easy for construction workers would can't lift thousands of
pounds," would that indicate to you that the pyramids in Egypt were
built with cranes?

* I have no affiliation with Arcomet. It's the first manufacturer I
saw in the Wikipedia entry on mechanical cranes.