ongwt.com

If you add the download for Mac, Linux and Windows, GWT has been downloaded more the 200000 times. Simply great !

Thanks to all of you.

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Pierre Mage :

A great news for GWT users: Google just announced a release candidate of Google Maps API for GWT. It is a nice API that not only gives access to Google Maps API from GWT but also allows to add GWT widgets to Map! But that is not all. This library is just part of Google API Libraries for GWT which is not limited to Google Maps. It also gives access to Gears (I use this part in the project I am currently working for), Gadgets and Google AJAX Search API.
I join GWT teams to invite you to test and comment on this libraries.

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Bruce Johnson :

We're happy — no, ecstatic — to announce that GWT 1.5 is now officially released and available for download.

Here is a small recap of the main new features :

• Java 5 language support
• Performance optimizations
• Easier JavaScript interop
• Prettier widgets
• Accessibility

This is a major news for the GWT community. It would be nice if all of you could post a blog.

GWT 1.5 Now Available

Download GWT 1.5

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Shoaib Hashmi

With the latest version of Gears, you are now able to upload YouTube videos more than 100 MB and the best part is that you don’t need any specific software to do so. Gears which is now being used by YouTube to upload videos, contains some cool features according to which it is now easy to upload videos with larger size.

This will help a lot for the adoption of Google Gears.

‘Google Gears’ now lets you upload YouTube videos upto 1 GB

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Joel Weber

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.

GWT 1.5 RC2 now available for download

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Google and Sun have submitted GWT as a JSR under the JCP 2.6 process. This would mean that the JCP will be used to standardize GWT via a specification and TCK. There is already support from Apache, "BEA/Oracle", IBM, JBoss, SpringSource and ThoughtWorks.

Bruce Johnson, James Gosling and Joel Webber are co-spec leads.

Here is the complete list of contributors : Dion Almaer, Adrian Buerki, Prabhakar Chaganti, Luc Claes, Charlie Collins, Robert Cooper, Ray Cromwell, Douglas Crockford, Ryan Dewsbury, Jeff Dwyer, Chris Fong, Jesse James Garrett, David Geary, Didier Girard, Rob Gordon, John Gunther, Vipul Gupta, Robert Hanson,  Sanjiv Jivan, Dietrich Kappe, Marcel Lanz, Erik Meijer, Darrell Meyer, John Resig, Adam Tacy and Reinier Zwitserloot.

This JSR is open, if you want to join, just send me a email, I will forward it to Bruce : Didier.Girard@gmail.com.

Excerpt from JSR

Currently the Java community does not have a standard technology for writing rich internet application.

GWT makes writing rich internet application for the browser fast and easy. GWT includes language features found in Ajax, java, GCC, Python, Ruby, and Smalltalk, but uses syntax natural to developers that use the Java programming language. Because GWT is based on J2SE, applications written in GWT can use the J2SE APIs, and work seamlessly with other packages and applications written in the Java programming language.

GWT is a complement of the Java programming language, not a replacement of it. Where the Java programming language is exacting, GWT is expedient. Where the Java programming language is extensive, GWT is convenient. Using GWT, developers can take advantage of rapid application development features like those in Python and Ruby for quick application prototyping and development of rich internet application.

GWT is a very "learnable" programming language that makes adoption of the Java platform by developers go more quickly and smoothly. GWT incorporates syntax similar to the Java programming language. That developers can use familiar Java-like syntax in GWT source code makes learning of GWT easier, and facilitates transition from either language to the other. GWT can be a low-threshold language for developers new to the Java platform as well as a productivity-enhancing tool for experienced Java developers.

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Tonight, I will be in London for the QCon. If some of you are there, it could be nice to meet.

On Friday, I will explain why I believe in GWT and Gears. Here is the summary of my session :

GWT + Gears, the browser is the platform

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java development framework that proposes a new way of doing web development. Gears is an open source browser extension that enables web applications to provide offline functionality using JavaScript APIs.

This talk will describe how GWT works, how easy it is, how it increases productivity, how it deals with security, why it produces better and more efficient JavaScript than you can produce by hand. Then we will explain what is Gears, show how to use it with GWT and detail how this two technologies could change the way of thinking web applications.

QCon London 2008

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Dion Almaer

I have seen the huge batches of cell phones that companies keep around to test their applications on. Companies like UI Evolution have come along to try to help out the madness of getting something that works across more than a couple of them.

Not only do you have the problems of handsets, but you also have the network lock-downs and the hoops you have to go through to get an application onto a large set of devices.

Since the iPhone, I have strongly believed that history is going to repeat itself, and the Web is going to win on the mobile.

Enough rambling, Google has just released Google Gears for Mobile

I think that Gears is a good friend for GWT.

Google Gears for Mobile Released

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Bruce Johnson

GWT 1.5 isn't finished yet, but it is starting to get close. I'm happy to  report that the first milestone build of GWT 1.5 is now available. For milestone builds like this, please understand that there are still known  problems, and it is use-at-your-own-risk. It *definitely* isn't ready for
production use. For example, this milestone build is missing release notes,  and it doesn't include the developer guide documentation. So, you should expect some trial and error getting everything to work...

...I also have some good news about what's included in this milestone:

• The Java 1.5 syntax is fully supported, including generics, enums, nice "for" loops, autoboxing, static imports, annotations, and so on
• Support for generics in RPC (no more @gwt.typeArgs!)
• The ability to subclass JavaScriptObject for very straightforward JavaScript interop
• Standards mode is now supported by the UI library (though there may be a few remaining bugs)

GWT 1.5 Milestone 1 now available for download

Source : GWT 1.5 M1 now available

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adobe.com :

The new Adobe AIR runtime enables Ajax developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy on the desktop. AIR applications run across operating systems on the WebKit HTML engine and are easily delivered using a single installer file. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use their existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web.

I think it is possible to run a GWT application on the AIR runtime. I would be interested to know anyone's experience in implementing it.

http://www.adobe.com/products/air/develop/ajax/

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