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I've never knowingly seen GWT used in practice. Does anyone have any examples of (semi) notable websites utilising it?

I used it for about 8 months, Hated it. Its like a big wall between you and the DOM.

I guess its good of you hate html and javascript. But once you grow up and realise your making a web page and need to control the DOM in a particular way, it just gets in your way.

Would you recommend it for some one who doesn't know the DOM well?

According to an HN comment by user cromwellian, it's widely used inside Google including the new Inbox mail app:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8554339

Other references mentioned by the poster are "Apple (iAds Workspace), Amazon (AWS Console), Nike".

Though it's worth noting that Inbox and similar properties do not use it for UI code, but only (exclusively) for business logic below the UI layer. UI code is written in pure JavaScript/Closure.

Huh? I didn't know GWT had any non-UI functionality.

Some other lists:

- http://trends.builtwith.com/websitelist/Google-Web-Toolkit - but this might be seriously underestimated, as they are not able to detect services accessible after login, where GWT is mostly used.

- http://ars-codia.raphaelbauer.com/2011/12/why-google-web-too...

Other that I'm aware of:

- https://www.cloudorado.com/

- https://ruxit.com/ - their service once you log in

- http://gogrid.com/ - again after login

Two more that I recalled:

- Angry Birds web version

- web mail at http://wp.pl (one of the major mail services in Poland)

Google uses it for several properties, including:

AdWords UI AdSense UI Blogger Groups Doclist Parts of Maps / Geo

according to https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/google-web-toolkit/Mjj...

Their case studies page has a few more: http://www.gwtproject.org/casestudies.html

Moreover Newsdesk, a reasonably large media monitoring platform is pretty much solely based on GWT, though it looks like they are moving away from it in their new development.

I worked for a big French bank for a few months about 3 years ago and they were using it on a few of their projects (CRM, budget planner).

Most of Google's Web apps use Closure AFAIK, but Inbox and Wave use GWT. Those are the most notable examples I know of.

Any non-Google examples?

EDIT: Nevermind, found a list here: http://gwtreferencelist.appspot.com/

Google Inbox

evernote

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