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GWT Community UpdatesDecember 19 2008

The GWT community is full of activity; so much so that it sometimes becomes difficult to keep track of! I thought it would be a good idea to try and gather some of this action in one place, so without further ado, here's what's going on in the GWT community!

Community announcements

Restlet 1.1.0 released: Using REST APIs with Servlets used to require wasted hours writing custom code. Fortunately, Restlet came along to take that pain away. Even more fortunately, Restlet integrates with GWT to make dealing with REST APIs a breeze. The team has recently announced their 1.1.0 release, might be worth a spin if you've exhausted yourself writing custom code and need some REST.

Hibernate4GWT (Gilead) 1.2 RC1: Hibernate is an extremely powerful ORM framework for the Java programming language. It has proven itself as an invaluable tool for those with tight data-to-domain mapping, and thanks to Hibernate4GWT, has become easily accessible to GWT application developers. Hibernate 1.2 RC1 (aka Gilead) is now available to download.

SmartGWT 1.0 released: SmartClient is a framework that allows you to not only utilize its widget library for your applic

Put Your GWT App on Facebook in 10 minutesDecember 16 2008

Jared Jacobs is the frontend lead at kaChing, a marketplace for investing talent. He had a chance to stop by and give us the lowdown on his team's successful port of their GWT application onto the Facebook platform. If you're looking to socialize your application on Facebook, read on for the steps to make it happen.

As you may know, social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, and MySpace can be an excellent place to grow a new business. Most of the kaChing community first discovered us through friends using our Fantasy Stock Exchange Facebook app.

In this post, I'll help you get your GWT app running as a Facebook app. Believe it or not, it can be done in just two easy steps.

  1. Create the Facebook App.
    Follow the instructions on Facebook's Getting Started page to create and name your Facebook app. Accept the default settings for now.
  2. Point your Facebook App at your GWT App.
    Adjust these Facebook App settings:
    Callback URL Enter the URL of your GWT app's main HTML page. Tip: For a quick development cycle, run your server locally and use a localhost URL. Canvas Page URL Choose a path beneath apps.facebook.com for your Facebook app. Also select the Use iframe


Spotlight On Developers Using Google Web ToolkitDecember 11 2008

One of the best resources for developers looking for tips on building applications or learning about a new technology is to hear from other developers who have already been through the experience and built world-class applications. That's why we're happy to share videos of a few developers who used the Google Web Toolkit to build rich, sophisticated Ajax applications that have wowed audiences, won prestigious awards and are pushing the boundaries of what we've come to expect from a web application.

Check them out in our new Who's Using GWT page. In these videos, the developers explain how they used GWT to build their apps, their opinions on GWT overall, and tips and learnings from working with GWT. These videos include the developers behind:

  • GoGrid: the cloud computing infrastructure service provider that won "Best of Show" at the Linux World 2008 Product Excellence Awards.
  • Lombardi Blueprint: a business process mapping and diagramming tool that was used as a case study at this year's Google I/O conference.
  • scenechronize: a film and television production management application, presented at the Sundance Film Festival and Festival de Cannes in 2008.
  • Whirled: a social virtual world website, where users can keep up with friends, discuss on boards, and play a number of wildly entertaining mini-games.

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What's ahead for Google Web ToolkitDecember 10 2008
By Andrew Bowers, Google Web Toolkit Team

A lot of discussion occurs in the Google Web Toolkit contributors forum about development progress, feature requests, and the roadmap. We realize that many of you are very busy and would like to see a simple roadmap on the website, so we've updated "Making GWT Better" with our current plans.

As with any development work, its hard to exactly predict when things will land, so we've stayed away from specific dates and releases past the next one. You'll be happy to know that release 1.6 is well underway and on target for Q1 of 2009.

You can check for future updates in the Making GWT Better section of our website.

Release 1.6

Anticipated Time Frame - Q1 2009

  • New compiled file deployment structure
  • Easily compile into a war file structure, making it easy to deploy your compiled GWT application into standard servlet containers
Migration from Tomcat to Jetty hosted mode server
  • A more pluggable architecture for the hosted mode server will enable developers to use servlet containers other than Tomcat with the Hosted Mode browser
Uniform event handlers
  • Event handlers will be implemented in a uniform fashion across all widgets, with li
Visualizations in your GWT applicationDecember 9 2008
By Eric Ayers, Google Web Toolkit Team

For those of you interested in creating visualizations in your Google Web Toolkit applications, we're happy to announce the Google Visualization API Library for Google Web Toolkit (GWT). This adds another library of Java language bindings for JavaScript APIs provided by Google, collectively known as the suite of Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit.

We're also releasing a General Availability build of the Google Maps API Library for GWT. This build contains a few bug fixes that contributors have reported. Thank you for reporting those, and please continue to report them in the issue tracker.

You can read more about the new Visualization API i