Google has made its Google Web Toolkit available via open source under an Apache 2.0 license, the company said on Tuesday. The toolkit features a free development framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web applications in Java. A release candidate for version 1.3 of the toolkit features debugging and a Java-to-JavaScript compiler. Discussions on further development of the toolkit will take Google has made its Google Web Toolkit available via open source under an Apache 2.0 license, the company said on Tuesday.The toolkit features a free development framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Web applications in Java. A release candidate for version 1.3 of the toolkit features debugging and a Java-to-JavaScript compiler. Discussions on further development of the toolkit will take place in an open Google group, the company said. Notes from internal meetings on the toolkit will be posted as well. Google Web Toolkit was launched in May. The company has used the toolkit to build products such as Google Checkout, for online shopping. Technology Industry