Just talked with a company who was using the GWT. I had never heard of it before so I did a quick search:

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

It looks pretty sweet. My only complaint is that I'm just

learn

 ing  about it now.

Anybody have any experience?

Ive heard of it but never used it dude!

P.s. use dirzap all the time mate nice one

I just looked at it.
It is basically one of those cool projects that take code of one language to output code in another language.
In this case Java ->

javascript

 .

In

python

  you have pyrex which takes

python

  like code and makes C
and in scheme you have my beloved chicken scheme
which takes scheme and make C/C++

you already know basics of java.
I presume you have used AWT and SWING. (personally i hate java so i just glanced at it).

Basically it ap

pear

  to offer a GUI, methods to manipulate a webpages, and some sort of RPC class.
you can read a class tree.

so install the compiler. (the thingie that makes JS code, i think for test purpose you can make it do java code).
make a couple test proggies.

call those morons back and tell them you are an expert in GWT

PS: during the interview don't get into an arguement with the chief programmer and tell him he is a fuking moron.

The thing that's really drawing me to it is:



So if a new browser comes out and breaks something I'm guessing Google will update their compiler so all you have to do is download it and recompile.

I hate messing with cross-browser issues, and it would be nice to outsource this to Google for free. 

No lie.

And Google <i>promises</i> to only send you emails that market to you based on your interests, defined by your choice of variable names...