When I first heard about Google Web Toolkit, I was kind of bummed because it looked so nice but it was closed source. But then they announced they were open sourcing it under the Apache license, opening the door to all sorts of possibilities.

One great consequence is the announcement I just read on the NetBeans dev alias from Thomas Szlota and Tomas Zezula . They have started a project on java.net to support the Google Web Toolkit in NetBeans.

As a Java guy who has struggle with JavaScript, and as somebody who very very much appreciates the help an IDE like NetBeans gives to a developer, I was very excited to hear this. Of course I'd like to participate, but only so much time in the day. But I look forward to see what they're going to do here and am excited to see these two technologies coming together For The Greater Good.