Didier Girard, SFEIR

Didier Girard is CTO of SFEIR a consulting company based in Paris. He is also a member of the Open Source Get Together Paris. He built, abut.cnam.fr, a community web site on literature in 1994. He started building server side java applications in 1997.

Girard has bloged on J2EE at application-servers.com since 2000 and on GWT at onGWT.com since GWT was open sourced. Girard is an early adopter who is constantly looking for good technologies for SFEIR's clients. He is currently working on several projects using GWT as the GUI technology.

Presentation: "GWT + Gears : the browser is the platform"

Track: Browser & Emerging Rich Client Technologies

Time: Friday 13:00 - 14:00

Location: St James's Suite

Abstract:

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework that proposes a new way of doing web development. Gears is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.

This talk will describe how GWT works, how easy it is, how it increases productivity, how it deals with security, why it produces better and more efficient JavaScript than you can produce by hand. Then we will explain what is Gears, show how to use it with GWT and detail how this two technologies could change the way of thinking web applications.

Keywords: rich web application, GWT, Gears, Javascript, performance, java, offline/online, future, plateform, demonstration