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GWT Tech Talk
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
If you missed
The Ajax Experience
conference back in October, you can still catch
Bruce Johnson's talk online
, thanks to
TheServerSide.com
. In this talk, Bruce discusses Google Web Toolkit's performance and interoperability; it's a great introduction to GWT with lots of demos and sample code.
It's official: GWT 1.2 released
Thursday, November 16, 2006
After a couple weeks of fixing all the issues our developer community has so diligently reported in the
issue tracker
, we are happy to announce the official release of
Google Web Toolkit 1.2
today.
As we mentioned when we released the 1.2 Release Candidate, you can now
develop and debug with GWT on Mac OS X
in addition to Linux and Windows. We are pretty proud of this particular feature because GWT is now about as "platform independent" as you can get: develop on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X and deploy to IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera on any platform, without any special cases in your code. (If you want a bit more detail about our implementation of Mac OS X support, our release nomenclature and other tidbits,
this recent InfoQ interview
may interest you.)
We also have already talked about
how much faster
the 1.2 hosted mode debugging environment is. And it is. If you've ever found yourself dropping to the command line using only the GWT compiler because hosted mode was too slow, you really should check out 1.2. Refreshes in hosted mode are almost instantaneous, and hosted mode lets you actually debug your code, which is nice.
And of course, there were
a few (dozen) bug fixes in 1.2 RC
and
a few more in the 1.2 release
. Good riddance.
And if that weren't enough...the number of
third-party development tools
supporting GWT is growing quickly:
JetBrains added fantastic
GWT support in IDEA 6.0
. Check out their
video demo
to see just how easy they make GWT development.
Instantiations just launched
GWT Designer
for Eclipse, a very impressive visual GUI creator
demonstrated recently in their webinar
.
Wirelexsoft
VistaFei for GWT
is a comprehensive WYSIWYG IDE for GWT, soon to be offered in a free Community Edition as well as an enhanced Enterprise Edition.
Joel Webber and I are also currently
writing a book about GWT
to be published by Addison-Wesley. Our plan is to explain all the nuts and bolts of GWT in excruciating detail.
It's way past bedtime, but one parting thought before I crash on a beanbag underneath this conference table: the GWT team rocks. You wouldn't believe how hard everyone has been working. And yet our urge to code is only growing as we see just how much people are starting to grok GWT.
Let us know what you think of the release in the
GWT developer forum
.
Wrapping Up GWT 1.2 Soon
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Many thanks to everyone who has tried out the
GWT 1.2 Release Candidate
so far. We hope you like the new OS X support and the optimized hosted mode reload time, and hopefully you've benefited from all the other fixes and enhancements as well. I wanted to summarize a few bug reports we've received related to new functionality in 1.2 RC (build 1.2.11) and give a quick update.
There was a bug related to whitespace in filenames that was
discussed on the group
. It was not a problem with IDEA at all...the goof was completely ours. It was written up as
Issue 308
in
the GWT Issue Tracker
and a fix will be included in the 1.2 Final release.
Some OS X users found that using certain add-on software (e.g. Creammonkey) conflicted with OS X hosted mode. Kelly explains it in
Issue 296
, which also includes a script that can automatically patch 1.2 RC to fix the problem.
Certain uses of jar files to share modules were interacting badly with the new hosted mode caching infrastructure, as described in
Issue 309
. It has been fixed for the next build, but the issue writeup describes a workaround if you need one before then.
We didn't state it explicitly before, but the new OS X hosted mode support only works on Tiger (OS X Version 10.4) or later.
If all goes as planned, we expect to wrap up
changes related to the new 1.2 functionality
and publish a final version of GWT 1.2 next week. We're resisting the temptation to slurp in additional changes since our goal is to finalize the things that were slated for 1.2. Once that's in your hands, we can quickly move on to another round of features and fixes as we push toward getting 1.3 out there (no ETA yet for that, but we'll keep you posted).
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