Google is soon planning to release a near-last version of the Google Web Toolkit 1.5, software intended to simplify the burdensome parts of writing complicated Web-based software. GWT 1.5 comprises support for Java 5, a version of the Sun Microsystems programming language that was launched in the year 2006, and produces software, which runs about 1.2 to 2 times quicker for complex Web applications, stated Bruce Johnson, Google's engineering manager for GWT.

This fresh software fuels Google's goal of making the Web a much wealthier software environment - a purpose on present this week at the Google I/O meeting in San Francisco. Johnson also considers that the Web is by now "really close" to the abilities of PC as a software foundation.

"We've observed that there's no question anymore whether you're going to target the browser or a desktop app. For almost any new exciting app, you're going to target the browser," Johnson said. "For the right set of applications, it's already better than what you can do on the desktop. For extremely low-latency applications, like video editing, I think we're still a couple years out."