The DWT project commenced about a fortnight back and soon hit some roadblocks.
Firstly, the Ajax communication to the server in Google Web Toolkit is asynchronous and as such retrieving the templates in template based widgets was an issue. For which the team wrote a quick-fix to query the server synchronously. A function getText was added to com.edujinilabs.dwt.client.dojo.Dojo class (see the code here).
Ok... that was an easy go. But then, we had the real fun!