Ed Burnette says that 'getting started developing with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is easy'. He gives the uninitiated a crash course on setting up GWT on the Eclipse IDE, in a new post on his blog at zdNet.

According to Ed, you will require a Java Development Kit (JDK) and an Eclipse platform, preferably Eclipse 3.2. Once you download and unzip GWT, you’re ready to start your first project. However, as there are no Eclipse plug-ins to create a GWT project yet, some manual work will have to be done, Ed says.

Ed then takes you through the creation of the project, aided by screenshots and code. He also explains how the power of Eclipse, the debugger, refactoring and source management is made available in AJAX with the Google Web Toolkit. In the following posts, Ed promises to give his take on GWT as he puts it through its paces.