title: Access local resources (e.g. USB devices, MS Word) from Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
body: <p>I'm considering using GWT (actually SmartGWT) for an application on a Macintosh that communicates a lot with a database on a remote server but that also occasionally has to access local resources (e.g. some hardware on the computer or communicating with a word processing application).</p>
  
  <p>I'm considering a browser-based approach (rather than a stand-alone approach using Cocoa) because (a) Smart GWT would nicely handle the remote communication and (b) this approach would make it easier to port my application to Windows in the future.</p>
  
  <p>Given that I'll have administrator rights on the local machine, is there an easy way to do this? </p>