GWT 1.5 Final is now available

All GWT developers rejoyce! GWT 1.5 is here:

“This has been a big development cycle, and we’re really excited about the advancements in GWT over the last year. As always, we’re eager to hear your feedback once you’ve tried this new version.”

The detailed description of new features can be found in the official announcement

Ext GWT releases preview with grids, portal, webdesktop support

A new preview release of Ext GWT (1.1. Alpha 2) is now available for download here and includes a number of long awaited goodies: new grids implementation, portals, webdesktop, new forms etc. For a complete post describing the new features read  here.

It seems Darrell has been making quite a bit of progress lately on GXT – good stuff.

Release Candidate of GWT Google Apis is available

From the announcement

“We’re happy to say that the first Release Candidates for the Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit <http://code.google.com/p/gwt-google-apis/>are now ready to be taken for a test drive. The project is a collection of libraries that provide Java language bindings and API specific ‘plumbing’ for some Google JavaScript APIs. The goal is to make it easy for developers to use these JavaScript APIs with GWT. Libraries available at this time include a new version of Gears, as well as new libraries for Gadgets and the Google AJAX Search API.“

Open Flash Charts for GWT

There is now a wrapper project hosted on Google Code for the Open Flash Charts 2. Open Flash Charts is just what it says is – an open source flash charting library, and quite slick looking I might add. And the GWT wrapper is : “The OFCGWT project provides a simple to use chart widget for GWT based on Open Flash Chart 2. It uses a heavily modified POJO bean model from OFC4J that is serialized using GWT JSON to provide the correct GWT Client data that meets the requirements of the OFC 2.x API. A beta version is available for early developer testing.”

And here is the link to the announcement on the GXT forums and here is a screen shot

GWT1.5 RC2 now officially out

“GWT 1.5 RC2 includes a number of enhancements and fixes above and beyond those included in the first release candidate. Please see the release notes included in the installation archive for details.”

Read more here and here or just download it here

another GWT example – BrightPages.com

“We recently ported the site http://brightpages.com from Struts to GWT. As others have experienced, we had quite a ride porting to GWT framework. Being a public website, we have had to deal with issues like making the site accessible to crawlers and minimize the network traffic. We still have some UI bits rendered from server as GWT’s dynamic UI is not crawlable. But most of the interactive bits turned out good with GWT.

The other issue we dealt with is the size of the javascript output by GWT. The way we got around it using deferred binding to output different JS per page and in some cases, per use case, while using the same GWT module. This bought the size of the uncompressed JS from over 400kb to less than 27kb. I know that the JS is cached by the browser, but the delay in first-time hit was not acceptable.

We tried to switch to GWT 1.5 but the compile time was making the process prohibitive. Looking forward to the final release of 1.5 and the community feedback.”

new version of Sasha(Google)Maps is out

“Sasha Maps is a GWT-based library which provides functionality similar to the Google Maps API (its client side).”

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/914d027afd70f127#

GWT 1.5 RC2 is out

Available under http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list

“This release candidate includes a number of enhancements and fixes above and beyond those included in the first release candidate. Please see the release notes included in the installation archive for details. We will be updating the public documentation and posting further details on the Google Web Toolkit blog soon:

http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/

We’re eager to get everyone’s feedback, so please try it out!”