you say that like GWT is somehow bad!

I think GWT is a great piece of tech. To be honest, google has way too much NiH syndrome, even internally...

I still have trouble understanding how anyone can take something like GWT seriously.

Whole books could be written about everything that is wrong with GWT, but here is one post that barely scratches the surface: http://ryandoherty.net/2007/04/29/why-google-web-toolkit-rot...