I totally understand and appreciate your opinion on the subject. From my experience this is very much a subjective issue. We’re talking about two completely different programming styles – some people feel more comfortable with a markup language while others (perhaps those who’re more Java and Swing oriented). Personally, I find the “Swing-like” style easier to grasp and develop and the fact that all code (presentation and logic) is written in one language makes it easier *for me* to work with and maintain. Another aspect to consider is that type of application you’re actually developing. I think it is very important to choose the right technology for the right problem. If you ask me, I wouldn’t go ahead and for example develop a public website with GWT simple because I don’t believe it’s the right technology (there are more issues than development style here to consider – SEO for example). In JTeam we see GWT as a perfect technology for developing back office and management consoles applications, in which the richness of the UI is much more evident and plays a stronger role. That all being said, the good news is that the next GWT release (2.0) will come with support for template binding – that is, you’ll be able to define your UI in a markup language and bind it to the GWT java code.