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GWT Theme Generator

dgirard — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:34:00 +0200

Krishnakumar Pooloth

We have developed an online tool to generate a gwt theme for a user- specified color. The generated theme is similar to the gwt standard theme.

http://works.sen-sei.in/gtg/

Cross Site JSON with GWT Designer

dgirard — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:06:00 +0200

Chad Lung

This is the third tutorial in my series that takes the GWT Getting Started Tutorial and modifies it for Instantiations GWT Designer. With this tutorial I'll focus on getting cross site JSON from a simulated third party server which will be hosted locally but powered by the same Python web server the GWT tutorial uses. We start with a very quick look at introducing JSON for those that might not have seen it before. Then we'll look into the SOP - Same Origin Policy issue that comes up with cross sites calls and work around it by using JSNI. This tutorial assumes you have read the first two tutorials in this series before proceeding with this one.

Tutorial: Get cross-site JSON via HTTP with GWT and the GWT Designer by Instantiations

GWT RPC with GWT Designer

dgirard — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:17:00 +0200

Chad Lung

"There has been a lot of good feedback in regards to the first GWT + GWT Designer tutorial that was posted a couple days ago so I've decided to add a second one. This second tutorial will be again be using the GWT and the GWT Designer by Instantiations. In this tutorial I'll cover RPC just like it's covered in the original GWT getting started RPC tutorial, except of course we will be using GWT Designer. This tutorial will build upon the first tutorial and enahnce the Stock Watcher web app to get it's stock data from the server versus just getting it directly from the JavaScript on the client's browser. In the end we will have a more real world web application."

Tutorial: RPC with GWT and the GWT Designer by Instantiations

Tutorial GWT Designer

dgirard — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:02:00 +0200

Chad Lung

I've created a GWT Designer tutorial based off of the GWT team's "Getting Started Tutorial". This tutorial hopes to allow the many people moving into the GWT world an easier approach by using one of the leading tools out there: GWT Designer by Instantiations. I've been pleased with the tool and think many developers can benefit from it's ease of use. As time moves on I'll be adding more tutorials to assist developers to easily move to GWT. Feedback and comments are appreciated and will help to make future tutorials better.

Tutorial: Getting started with GWT and the GWT Designer by Instantiations

Instantiations Updates GWT Designer in support of GWT 1.5

dgirard — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:25:00 +0200

Instantiations announces major updates to coincide with the GWT 1.5 release. GWT Designer now also has added basic support for popular widget kits GWT-EXT and MyGWT.

GWT Designer is the leading GUI building plug-in for GWT and become very popular since its launch in late 2006. Based on Instantiations award-winning WindowBuilder product, GWT Designer is an Eclipse-based graphical user interface (GUI) creation tool supporting features such as drag-and-drop GUI building and bi-directional code generation, providing several useful wizards that help make GWT development easier. It allows developers to focus on creating and testing rich Internet applications using Eclipse, Java and GWT without worrying about the complexities of AJAX coding. GWT Designer uses wizards, WYSIWYG builders, composites, layouts and controls.

Price and Free Trial

GWT Developer is available through an annual subscription of $59 for one year, $99 for 2-years, $139 for 3-years (all of which include one year of support), or a perpetual license for $124 with one year of support. Current up-to-date subscription holders of GWT Designer can upgrade to the new versions at no cost as part of their annual license. A two-week trial is also available.

http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner

http://www.instantiations.com/gwtdesigner/download.html

Cypal Studio for GWT - back to basics

dgirard — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:38:00 +0200

David Kuhn

Cypal Studio for GWT allows you to hook into your existing GWT SDK and add the GWT facet to your new/existing WTP project. From there you can go on developing your GWT application as you would a regular Dynamic Web Project in Eclipse and add the GWT stuff as you go. IMO this is a fantastic piece of work and really lowers the barrier to entry for developers new to GWT scene but who are already familiar with Eclipse.

Jumpstart GWT Development with Cypal Studio

Adobe AIR API for GWT

dgirard — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:13:00 +0200

gwt-in-the-aire

Makes the Adobe AIR API available for GWT (using JSNI) and provides a linker to compile Java to JavaScript and produce an AIR application in a single step.

For now, the linker produces an AIR intermediate package (i.e. you later need to sign it using the ADT). I've been able to package the Showcase sample from GWT 1.5. Follow the link in the right pane to try it out.

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-in-the-air/

Source : insideIT.fr

HtmlUnit now works with GWT 1.4 !

dgirard — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 11:59:00 +0100

Marc Guillemot

GWT 1.4 has been long a source of problems but, as announced by HtmlUnit committer Ahmed Ashour last week, this is now past story: HtmlUnit is now able to work correctly with the example applications of GWT 1.4!

HtmlUnit now works with GWT 1.4! « Marc Guillemot’s blog

Blogged with the Flock Browser

Tags: HtmlUnit, ahmed ashour

Selenium : testing your GUI

dgirard — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:39:00 +0100

Matt Raible :

Videos of last week's Selenium User Meetup have been posted on YouTube. You can watch them below or click on the video to watch it on YouTube. Enjoy!

Very interesting !

Selenium User Meetup Videos Posted

GUI Designer for GWT-Ext

dgirard — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:34:00 +0100

Eric Clayberg

The latest build now includes much more advanced GWT-Ext support including a GWT-Ext palette that will appear when GWT-Ext has been added to your project classpath and inherited into yoru module.
Note that this support is considered to be in beta and will likely evolve in the future. Currently supported components include:
Button, SplitButton, CycleButton, CheckItem, ColorPalette, ProgressBar, ComboBox, Checkbox, Radio, NumberField, DataPicker, DateField, TimeField, TextField, TextArea, ToolBar, ToolbarButton, ToolbarMenuButton, ToolbarFill, ToolbarSpacer, ToolbarSeparator, GridPanel, EditorGridPanel, PropertyGridPanel, TreePanel, TreeNode, Panel, FieldSet, FormPanel, HTMLPanel, MultiFieldPanel, TabPanel.

GWT-Ext and GWT Designer

GWT Designer 4.0

dgirard — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:40:00 +0100

New features :

Support for GWT 1.4.61
Create GWT JUnit Test Cases
JUnit GWT Application launch configuration
Preference for generating Async interfaces for RemoteServices
Preference to check for Composite default constructors
Preference to check for client-side compilation issues
Preference to set the GWT tests source folder
Search for *.gwt.xml modules in all source folders
Improved support MyGWT and GWT-EXT

GWT Designer v4.0.0
http://www.instantiations.com/company/opensource.html
Win three, one-year subscriptions (a $39 value) of GWT Designer GWT Designer Contest #2

News from the new version of GWT Designer

dgirard — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 18:09:00 +0100

Update : False alarm, thanks Chris

Ed Burnette

Instantiations demonstrated their new GWT Designer at a BOF last night at Eclipse World. According to Eric Clayberg, Sr. VP of Product Development, the response was very enthusiastic.

I hope that GWT Designer will support GWT-Ext, MyGWT and others.
And remember : "Instantiations is giving back to the community by donating its products to committers who are working on non-commercial open source projects."

New GWT Designer in beta

Instantiations' Donations to Open Source Projects

GWT Designer 2.0 is available for download

dgirard — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:16:00 +0200

GWT Designer™ is a GUI creator that supports GWT. Use GWT Designer's visual tools and wizards, and Java code will be generated for you. You don't need to write any lines of Java code, but you can fully edit the resulting Java if you wish.
2.0 released June 29, 2007

Automated performance and load testing of web applications written on GWT/AJAX

dgirard — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:02:00 +0200

Resource that will be helpful for selecting automated open source performance and load testing tools that support for AJAX/GWT
Automated performance and load testing of web applications written on GWT/AJAX

gwt4nb - GWT Support for NetBeans IDE

dgirard — Sat, 19 May 2007 07:37:00 +0200

Agile Ajax

In the world of GWT IDE support, you knew that NetBeans wouldn't long be behind. And, of course, a beta of gwt4nb is available. From the info site, gwt4nb offers the following features:

Using GWT with new or existing Web Projects
Deployment, running and debugging GWT-enabled Web Apps using arbitrary Application Server
Assistance to deal with some code editing nuances such as creating RPC services efficiently

gwt4nb - GWT Support for NetBeans IDE

Selenium and GWT : Automated Client Testing

dgirard — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:21:00 +0200

George Georgovassilis :

I use selenium extensively with all my GWT apps - and wouldn't want to live without it. You can use it to cross-platform test your applications in the two major browsers - the selenium team claims it works in almost any browser!

I invite you to read the full thread, it's very interesting.
Automated Client Testing

Googlipse is dead, long live Cypal Studio for GWT

dgirard — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:29:00 +0200

Pranni :

I’ve created a brand new product called “Cypal Studio for GWT“. It is hosted @ Google Code. Its essentially the same code base (with the same Apache 2.0 license) but with little changes and few bug fixes. So what happens to Googlipse now? Its dead. Means there will be no more bug fixes, no more features.

Googlipse is dead, long live Cypal Studio for GWT

Instantiations GWT Designer Accelerates Adoption of Google Web Toolkit

dgirard — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 01:20:00 +0100

Instantiations, Inc., a leading provider of software quality and productivity solutions, today announced the release of GWT Designer™ 1.5. The definitive development tool for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), GWT Designer is a comprehensive product for creating Ajax Web applications using the Java programming language. Ajax is shorthand for asynchronous JavaScript and XML, an increasingly popular means for coding rich Internet applications. GWT Designer is built on WindowBuilder Proª, the company's market-leading Eclipse tool for creating Java graphical user-interface (GUIs) applications for Microsoft Windows, Linux, Macintosh and other operating systems.

Instantiations GWT Designer Accelerates Adoption of Google Web Toolkit

GWT or J2S ? Java to JavaScript Compilation with AJAX and Spring Integration

dgirard — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:12:00 +0100

Ben Alex : "For some time I have been interested in client-centric, web-based user interfaces. These Generation IV frameworks are characterised by their component-based, event-driven programming model, and focus on the presentation logic residing entirely on the client. Targeting a web browser in this manner typically necessitates the use of JavaScript or Flash, which in itself imposes a number of unique challenges
[...]
The purpose of this blog entry is not to critique GWT or Open Laszlo. Instead I would like to explore an open source Java to JavaScript compiler named Java2Script Pacemaker (J2S) and present an initial Spring integration
[...]"

Java to JavaScript Compilation with AJAX and Spring Integration

gDevelop - Visual GWT editor for Oracle JDeveloper

dgirard — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:04:00 +0100

IT-eye : "gDevelop adds a GWT design tab to the java source editor, which enables you to edit GWT panels like you would Swing panels."
Features:

Visually design your panels, composites, menus and other widget types
View, change your widget's properties using Property Inspector
Add event handlers to your widgets

gDevelop - Visual GWT editor plugin for JDeveloper
gDevelop