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GWT’s new trick
It may rot your brain, but Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has some really incredible tricks up its sleeve.
GWT consolidates a bunch of web front-end optimizations in one place, and automates them, so you can focus on the interaction design of your application. My favorite (new) example, is ImageBundle, which I saw demoed at JavaOne.
ImageBundle takes all the images in your UI, combines them into One Big Image, and uses CSS to display the appropriate slices in the appropriate places, sprite-style.
I’m not using GWT, but it looks like a fascinating approach to web application development. If you’re interested, there’s a new version 1.4 release candidate out now.