I remember last year I was told to sign up for google wave.
Today I watched an important video, an event which took place after the keynote speech Introducing the release of google wave. It was the video describing how a team of engineers had to use gwt to create the app, and the evolution of gwt along the way.
A lot of the things we need, such as resource autoloading, inline javascript, browser detection, and countless of other features are already baked in. Google has done a great job at trying to help with the evolution of the web.
I would rather use gwt for the front end java for the backend. I guess no matter what language We decide to use for the backend, the fact that testing your product can be sent to a server farm thanks to their web driver, is just awesome.
Today an article about scribd that they eliminated the use of flash and that user interaction jumped. But the amount of unique visitors did not. Who knows, maybe they are doing their tracking incorrectly. One thing that rings true is that the flash industry is full of morons trying to learn on the job, like a certain E.t. I worked with. Anyway scribd is betting the company on it.