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Updated Mar 16, 2007 by gwt.team.dpeterson
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Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Ideas List for Google Summer of Code 2007

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Ideas List for Google Summer of Code 2007

This page lists several ideas for student projects related to the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), as part of the Google Summer of Code. If you are unfamiliar with GWT, please visit the Google Web Toolkit website.

If you would like to participate in any of these projects, please visit the SoC Student Application Page!

If you are curious to know more about the philosophy and development practices of the Google Web Toolkit project, please visit our guide on Making GWT Better.

Please note: we have numbered the projects below, mostly to allow for easy reference, but also loosely based on priority to GWT's current roadmap.

1. Java API Compatibility Validator

As a software API evolves, it may undergo refactorings. Unit tests can help determine when behavior changes, but it is difficult to test every possible use case of a given method, class, or interface. A tool that could examine two versions of a set of Java classes and report on interface changes that affect user code would be extremely helpful in guiding API changes.

A thumbnail sketch of such a tool might be:

Difficulty Level: Medium/Hard

Skills Required:

2. GWT for Gadgets

GWT can currently be used to develop "gadgets" or "widgets" (such as Google Gadgets and Mac OS X Widgets), but only with difficulty. Improvements to GWT to let it be used more easily in this area would be very helpful. There might be some overlap or shared work between this project and the "Googel for Firefox Extensions" project.

Difficulty Level: Easy/Medium

Skills Required:

3. Vector Graphics API for GWT

A vector API would be useful to developers interested in using GWT to build rich, highly interactive user interfaces similar to Google Maps or Flash applets. Currently, the ecosystem of vector graphics engines across browsers and operating systems is highly diverse. Just as essential as implementing the library is the research required to establish a solid cross-platform strategy. There would be three phases to this project:

Difficulty Level: Medium

Skills Required:

4. Network Sockets API for GWT

A frequent hurdle encountered by developers using GWT is a lack of robust network services. Flash provides networking functionality that JavaScript does not natively support, but using this functionality from within a GWT application is not easy or intuitive. An API and library that abstracts the loading of a small Flash applet and corresponding communications, exporting a clean interface into GWT user code would be helpful.

Difficulty Level: Easy/Medium

Skills Required:

5. GWT for Firefox Extensions

The Firefox extension model can be grossly summarized as a JavaScript application that operates over an XML/XUL DOM instead of an HTML DOM. It would be extremely cool if GWT could be used to develop Firefox extensions. Such a project would consist of two parts, which are semi-independent projects:

Some coordination would be required between the two sub-projects, to agree on common infrastructure.

Difficulty Level: Medium (UI changes) or Hard (bootstrapping changes)

Skills Required:

  • Experience with Java
  • Experience with JavaScript
  • Experience with Firefox extensions (or a willingness to learn them)
  • Experience with XML
  • Experience with GWT's UI library would be helpful

6. GWT for Cell Phones

Developing AJAX applications for cell phones is challenging, especially if the developer wants to reuse the same source code for both cell phones and desktop browsers. If GWT could offer developers a path to deploy their GWT applications to cell phones with little or minimal re-coding, it would be a major benefit to GWT and the web in general. This project would have several sub-tasks:

Difficulty Level: Hard

Skills Required:


Comment by vaish.rajan, Mar 01, 2008

Hello Sir/Mam, I am Rajan Vaish from India.I am a computer science student (6th semester-B.S ).I am very keen to participate for GSOC 2008 as i missed this opportunity last year.Sir/Mam ,I am in process of browsing last years (GSOC 2007 ) Organizations and i just halted while viewing the GSOC page of ur website.Sir/Mam, i feel like working for GOOGLE,please give me a glimpse of ideas upon which i can think upon and i'll produce the results ...or may be can work on the ideas which you ask me to do .I am very keen to work for GOOGLE(MY DREAM COMPANY) if given a chance .thanking you Rajan Vaish IM>vaish.rajan@gmail.com 091-9235503181 p.s-to know more about me and to have a view on my resume please see http://www.linkedin.com/in/rajanvaish ..thankingyou

Comment by IFa.brainpower, Dec 15, 2009

oops: 2. GWT for Gadgets (...) or shared work between this project and the "Googel for Firefox Extensions" project.

google for firefox


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