Google Web Toolkit News - onGWT.com

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) provides you with a great way to develop Ajax applications in the Java language. It allows you to develop 'fat clients' for the web, without having to know the ins and outs of JavaScript and all the corresponding browser incompatibilities.

This session will provide you with an introduction on building web-based, 'fat clients' with GWT. The focus of this session will be on integration between a GWT client and your Spring-managed back end. Bram will also discuss tips and tricks for working with GWT. During this session, Bram will demonstrate how to build a simple GWT client and connect it to an existing Spring-based back end application.

Just a few hours ago I finished a small, mostly-for-fun project in GWT, and now I see a GWT-related story on slashdot. Surely it's not a coincidence and therefore must pimp my project: a chess board diagram composer.

Regular readers of this blog (both of you) will remember my recent love confession for GWT. While I am glad to say that my feelings have not changed one bit, like all maturing relationships, we are getting more intimately familiar with one another. To the point where you know things about your significant other that you'd rather never found out. And since I know there are many others with feelings for GWT, I thought I'd give you a tip or two, in case you want to make a pass.

I've continued my explorations on how to use GWT in unconventional ways, starting with how to load a GWT application through a bookmarklet. That's been made much easier with GWT 1.4 through the introduction of a "cross site" feature.

Changes for gwt-dnd 1.2: updated for GWT 1.4.59; new online demos (with pumpkins), with source code of course; improvements to existing demos; more intuitive drop target selection; automatic text selection cancellation; out-of-the-box (no more DOM.eventPreventDefault()) support for image dragging; improved extensibility.

Of course you still get everything that was there before: all the source code (Apache 2 license); and package jar with a GWT module for easy download; javadocs; discussion group; Getting Started wiki with a  test project; Using the Source With Eclipse wiki for roll your own users; support for drag handles & drag proxies; extensible controllers, listeners (handlers), veto exceptions & drag events; non-invasive integration to existing projects; throttling API for slower platforms; quirks and strict mode support; inline and block element dragging; and much more.