Google’s Campfire One is a series of sessions where they invite certain developers to their campus to talk about their ideas and news surrounding their developments. A few nights ago they had the Google Web Tookit 2.0 developers on hand.

Google Web Tookit 2.0 is the development kit offered by Google for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. GWT is used by many products at Google, including Google Wave and Google AdWords. It’s open source, completely free, and used by thousands of developers around the world.

At Google’s Campfire One the developers unveiled the Google Web Tookit 2.0:

After a year and a half of working with teams like Google Wave, AdWords, and Orkut (as well as many others inside and outside of Google), Google Web Toolkit 2.0 has emerged with new tools in its toolkit and more features in its core SDK to meet the demands of today’s web applications.

The video below is from Google’s Campfire One and shows the developers showcasing their new product (it is actually a series of  6 videos, just like being at the real thing):

Two of the big improvements they made in Google Web Tookit 2.0 is:

Faster Apps

Google Web Toolkit now offers a new tool called Speed Tracer, a performance profiler for Google Chrome that allows developers to see what’s going on in a whole new way by enabling diagnosis of hidden problems. Developer-guided code splitting is another new feature that allows developers to split up their application into multiple pieces for much faster startup times. Users download only the JavaScript they need to get started while the rest can be loaded at a later time.

Faster Development

Google Web Toolkit 2.0 also introduces UiBinder, a Declarative UI framework that enables rapid design iteration and a clean separation between presentation layer and application logic. Team projects will benefit from an improved workflow that provides smooth collaboration between designers and developers.

Here is the Speed Tracer Tutorial:

These updates will be well received by Google Wave developers. I think the UiBinder will be a big hit among all developers. If you are not too familiar with GWT but want to be check out some of the GWT Books to help you get started.

Love to hear thoughts from the developers on what they think of the latest update to the GWT.

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