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Thursday 13 March 2008

GWT 1.5 part 2 : The Road to 1.5, Linkers

By dgirard on Thursday 13 March 2008, 10:10

Ray Cromwell

The Google Web Toolkit compiler is a marvelous tool for turning Java code into highly optimized Javascript, but prior to GWT 1.5, there was no mechanism for developers to customize the packaging of the compiler output, or the bootstrap of the application.
C developers are used to the ability to override the entry point glue code ('start' method in crt1.o for example), or to package statically, dynamically, etc, so why not provide this capability for GWT developers as well?

The Road to 1.5, Linkers

Sunday 9 March 2008

GWT 1.5 part 1 : Zero Overhead Javascript Interop

By dgirard on Sunday 9 March 2008, 17:14 - GWT Article

image Ray Cromwell

The next version of Google Web Toolkit is almost upon us, GWT 1.5, but don't take the minor version bump as an indication of how much it's improved, GWT 1.5 has so many awesome improvements, it would be more proper to call it GWT 2.0. That's one reason why it's been almost a year since the last release.
To celebrate the release, I will be writing a series of brief articles on each of the many improvements of 1.5, hopefully with sample code demonstrations.

Very interesting !

GWT:The Road To 1.5, Part 1

Saturday 8 March 2008

GWT 1.5 Milestone 1 now available for download

By dgirard on Saturday 8 March 2008, 18:53 - GWT News

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