[edwinnathaniel]

> Doing UI in Java is too clunky for me no matter what library I'm using though, so YMMV.

For sure. C#, Java, C++ are all clunky. Maybe it's the nature of the ecosystem.

This is one thing I hate about GWT: it offers tons of upside (sprites, bundles, i18n, unit-test in JUnit IF using MVP) but the downside is in the area of big-consideration of pain point.

[johnyzee]

With GWT it is possible to pretty much build your UI in HTML and simply inject key components, with event handlers etc., into the DOM structure. You would use an HTMLPanel and add(Widget widget, String id). Few people seem to be aware of this.

I used this approach to build TeamPostgreSQL (demo at http://teampostgresql.herokuapp.com/), where the designer built the entire interface in HTML and I just inject GWT widgets in the right places.