The Java Quiz this week is more of a JavaScript & GWT quiz than Java. Answer a couple of questions and win a copy of ‘Professional JavaScript for Web Developers 2nd Ed’.  Enter The Quiz.

If JavaScript is something you deal with everyday while developing Java web applications, you must have a look at Aman King’s session on ‘JavaScript Redux: Relearning JS For Today’s Needs‘ . While Allahbaksh Asadullah talks of GWT in his session GWT Internals – Tips & Tricks @ the IndicThreads Conference On Java 09.

Google has released Sputnik, a suite of 5000 tests that touch all aspects of the JavaScript language as defined in the ECMA-262 standard. It was created to check if V8, Google’s open source JavaScript engine conformed to the spec and to detect unexpected changes in behavior.

Anirudh Dewani looks at What is the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)?, the GWT architecture, JRE emulation & IDE support. He also looks at GWT Modules, Optimized JavaScript, Direct Http/JSON – RPC/ Server Side Support. He develops a GWT application highlighting GWT capabilities, including its support for unit testing and internationalization.

ActiveState Software has announced the release of Komodo IDE 5.1. Komodo 5.1 claims to provide dynamic language expertise for Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, plus JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML, and template languages like RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty, and Django.

With the Google I/O developer event kicking off in San Francisco, announcements from Google are coming thick and fast. The two interesting ones for the day are the release of Ajax Libraries API and the scheduled release of GWT 1.5.

Backbase has released Enterprise Ajax 4.2 for Java, a new Java version of it’s standards-based RIA framework. This new release claims to offer a complete Ajax solution for Java developers, with support for all popular Java frameworks, including Struts, Spring MVC and Java Server Faces (JSF). By extending existing Java frameworks with a strong and standards-based RIA alternative, Backbase enables the Java community to compete successfully with proprietary RIA technologies such as Microsoft Silverlight and Adobe Flex.