Bruce Johnson: Hi folks! GWT 2.0 RC1 is now ready for you to try. The full documentation is still very much a work in progress, but you can at least start trying out the GWT SDK distribution and the Google Plugin for Eclipse using the following instructions: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/GWT_2_0_RC GWT 2.0 is going to be a
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GWT is the present of web development
I’ve read a few articles by people who didn’t like GWT, but usually I don’t care to reply because it requires a lot of time to do it properly. However, today I came across this article on dzone: Lost in Translation or Why GWT Isn’t the Future of Web Development. This one was troubling because
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GWT: generating the factory
Controllers galore In my current GWT project, we make heavy use of MVC, which means we have controllers and views all over the place. To link menu items and other actions to screens, the action item only keeps a reference to the controller class. This implies that we have to be able to instantiate the
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GWT 2.0 milestone 2
John Labanca: We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. The full announcement in GWT groups The download
Comparative study of AJAX frameworks – sort of…
I just came across yet another comparative study of AJAX “frameworks”. When the author mentions that “GWT (…) can auto-generate AJAX-enabled JavaScript code from Java byte code”, it makes you wonder how much time he/she spent evaluating the options… Finally, GWT stands out in the conclusion only because it is supported by Google.
Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 1
Amit Manjhi: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the first milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone provides early access (read: known to still be unfinished and buggy) to the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the bits from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1&q=2…. (…) Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone
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Livre sur GWT: la sortie s’approche
(For the english speaking crowd: this is about the book I’m writing about GWT in french) Le livre que je suis en train d’écrire portera sur GWT 1.7 et 2.0, et s’adressera plutôt aux développeurs Java qui souhaitent passer à GWT. La sortie est prévue en novembre aux éditions Dunod. Le bout du tunnel approche
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Building GWT on the Mac
If you try to build the latest GWT from the svn repository on a Mac, you may end up with a bunch of errors like the following: BUILD FAILED /Users/ogerardin/Documents/GWT 2/trunk/build.xml:105: The following error occurred while executing this line: /Users/ogerardin/Documents/GWT 2/trunk/build.xml:27: The following error occurred while executing this line: /Users/ogerardin/Documents/GWT 2/trunk/build.xml:58: The following error occurred
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GWT + Snow Leopard: fixed with GWT 1.7.1
Google has just released GWT 1.7.1 to fix the issue I mentioned a few days ago regarding Snow Leopard compatibility. In short, you can now run GWT on Snow Leopard using the Java command line argument -d32 without further modification. The GWT SDK no longer directs you to only use Java 5. http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/2009/09/gwt-171-release-fixes-mac-os-x-snow.html
Porting Swing’s Action pattern to GXT (Ext-GWT)
While working with GWT and GXT, it occurred to me that there was no equivalent in either to Swing’s Action architecture… So I set myself to implement an equivalent functionality in GXT. The Swing legacy In a word, the action architecture is an implementation of the Command design pattern, with the Action class being an
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