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It's always easier to have your interface coupled with your server.... right? A lot of people doing development with JSF or any server generated client side technology will have a difficult time getting out of that way of thinking simply because it took quite a bit of work to get into it. Server side scripts will always be good at serving pages or generating reports but for more complex processes and tasks it doesn't make sense to do this constant state juggling between client and server. Up until now the alternative, Ajax, wasn't good for real software engineering. But now GWT lets you have decoupled clients running in a browser without the need for plugins with all the advantages of Java dev tools. And not being able to use JavaMail from a web browser is not a new restriction that came with GWT.

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