For those that haven't taken a serious look at why google have built a lot of their applications in gwt (wave, health, adwords etc), and require google-like ui'

For those that haven't taken a serious look at why google have built a lot of their applications in gwt (wave, health, adwords etc), and require google-like ui's, I'd recommend learning. Keep an open mind (find out WHY java is used, and what benefits you gain from it). GWT is amazing, and the engineers involved like Ray & Scott Blum are second to none.