Google Web Toolkit News - onGWT.com

Google Health feels accessible

dgirard — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:40:00 +0200

T.V. Raman :

We have improved the usability of Google Health for screenreader users by enhancing the built-in support available in GWT 1.5 via JavaScript. The resulting user experience enables users of screenreaders and self-voicing browsers to easily navigate the interface to obtain relevant auditory feedback — see the following sections for additional details.

ARIA For GWT: My health Is feeling accessible

Google Health feels accessible

Chat application made with GWT

dgirard — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:39:00 +0200

Joel Bourquard

I just wanted to let you know, that I've been working on a "smart" chat application called "Leeloo Chat", fully made from scratch with GWT 1.5. It already works quite well, allows people to register, discuss publicly
(even without registering), and to exchange rich text messages with embedded images !
Also, there’s a “smart” contact list, which detects who you’re talking with, even if nicknames contain spelling mistakes. When a two-way dialog is detected, the person is automatically added to a special “sub-panel” on top of your contact list, which allows for quick messaging of that person. You can also quickly add that person to your friends.
Topic-based discussion is also implemented, with collaborative edition of topics coming soon.

http://leeloo.webhop.net

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/

Google Web Toolkit Hosted and Web Mode explain

dgirard — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 11:16:00 +0200

Vinay j :

When you invoked a GWT application you were using what Google calls hosted mode. Hosted mode is only used during development. When in production, your application will be running in web mode. Before going any further in using GWT you need to understand the difference between the two. Note that as of this writing, hosted mode is only available on Windows and Linux.

Hosted vs. Web Mode

Wishzettel.com powered by GWT and Grails

dgirard — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:32:00 +0200

matt :

I’ve mainly done this application by myself. I’ve used GWT and Grails and I am pretty happy with the developing experience. An detailed developer report will follow.

http://wishzettel.com

Source : http://luebken.com/

MiniG - powered by GWT

dgirard — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:50:00 +0200

MiniG is a webmail implementation with a GMail like user interface. It is completely free software and is designed to work
with Cyrus IMAP servers.
MiniG uses a distributed architecture. Its GWT user interface comunicates with a REST webservice responsible of full text indexing, grouping of email as conversations and communication with addressbook data sources. The backend webservice is written using Eclipse OSGi technologies to provide great modularity.

http://minig.org

onGWT.com hits 800 entries

dgirard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:41:00 +0200

onGWT.com just hits 800 entries. Nice milestone.

GWT - Strictly limited to Java developers ? No !

dgirard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:35:00 +0200

This is a slide extract from John Resig presentation. Even if I respect a lot John for JQuery, I don't agree with him about what he thinks about GWT : GWT is not about java. It is about using a object oriented language to build ajax applications. And I think that Javascript, PHP and .NET developers will love GWT.

Thinking about the difference between frameworks

Managed Ajax - The best Approach to Ajax

dgirard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:29:00 +0200

Thomas :

My bet is that the current state of Ajax is roughly as the current state of development in general was 30 years ago when we were all developing in Assembly and C, JavaScript development feels inevitable, but it is not the future. And as time goes by fewer and fewer will choose to develop in "Assembly" Programming Languages and more of us will resort to "Managed Ajax". And in that process we will become far more productive and have far less Time2Market for our Ajax Applications...

I highly recommend you to read this post. It is very interesting !

Managed Ajax - A New Approach to Ajax

PostAffiliateXpress - powered by GWT

dgirard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:22:00 +0200

Ben Galbraith

The UI combines a Vista-like “Start” menu along with an OS X-like dock (using everyone’s favorite fish-eye widget). It also has a built-in widget system that leverages Google Widgets. Overall, it’s a pretty nice implementation of a desktop and windowing in Ajax.

If you want to switch from Classical to Multi-Window, go to the "Panel settings". In Multi-Window, I was able to add my GWT-Keyboard-Warrior application gadget.

http://samples.gwtphp.com/pax4/merchants/

GWT-Keyboard-Warrior Gadget

Source : ajaxian.com

Inside Google Web Toolkit - back to basics

dgirard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 12:41:00 +0200

Vinay has published a nice entry about Google Web Toolkit. In few words he explains main concepts behind the wall.

The GWT Java To Javascript Compiler
What Does GWT Do
The GWT AST Model
GWT Javascript Code Generation
How Does GWT Native Javascript (JSNI) Work
How Does GWT Translate JDK Classes
What are GWT widgets
How Does the GWT RPC Mechanism Work

Inside the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)

GWTPHP = Google Web Toolkit + PHP 5

dgirard — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:08:00 +0200

Unlike most of the other frameworks, GwtPHP is a framework for both client and server part. In GwtPHP you don’t need to hack JavaScript, you work with modern, object oriented languages. User intefrace (client) is programmed in Java, then compiled by Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to browser-dependent JavaScript. Server part uses PHP 5 - the most used web scripting language today.

In France, I'm trying to convince the PHP community that GWT is not about Java. It is about having a powerful and friendly client site technology. They start to be receptive to this message. This kind of product will help me to spread the word :-).

http://www.gwtphp.com/

Asking questions to Ajax Expert

dgirard — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:53:00 +0200

Dion Almaer :

If you have any questions for the browser panel tonight at The Ajax Experience, ask them here! http://tinyurl.com/tae2008

GWT and multiprocess compilation

dgirard — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:24:00 +0200

It seems that the team is working on a multiple processes or machines GWT compiler : good news !

Massive refactor: enable multiprocess GWT compiles

SmartGWT is arriving

dgirard — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:41:00 +0200

Sanjiv Jivan

Things are coming along great and users can expect a rather full featured alpha release soon. I've been very pleased working with the SmartClient API's. SmartClient has a very complete API and during the development of SmartGWT things just worked! No corner cases, quirks or missing API's. A good percentage of SmartGWT is being generated from metadata and uses GWT 1.5 features like Overlays where appropriate so the alpha release is going to be quite stable and perform well.

SmartGWT is arriving soon!

The Great Google Web Toolkit Roundup

dgirard — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:04:00 +0200

Schalk Neethling :

Over the past two months or so we here at the web builer zone, thanks to Manning Publishing, have been publishing a comprehensive series on GWT. We recently published the last in the series and I thought that it would be a good idea to create a sort of index of all of these articles.

The Great GWT Roundup

Google Web Toolkit 1.5 : 200000 downloads in one month

dgirard — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:04:00 +0200

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.

Google Moderator - powered by GWT

dgirard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:47:00 +0200

Google has released Google Moderator. This application is supported by Google Web Toolkit.

Introducing Google Moderator on App Engine

http://moderator.appspot.com/

Google API Libraries for GWT

dgirard — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 22:31:00 +0200

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.

Clarity Accounting - powered by GWT

dgirard — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 23:56:00 +0200

Dobes

Last Thursday at Launch Party 5 one of the things surprised people was my use of the Google Web Toolkit (usually abbreviated as GWT) to develop the application. Since GWT is so new, there are relatively few publically viewable application that use it, and of those, few are as attractive as Clarity Accounting.

GWT is the Tech that Makes Clarity Accounting Tick

Demonstration