Robert Hanson is at again, release the next version of his GWT Widget Library.  The main feature of this release looks to be the JsGraphicsPanel which is a wrapper for the JsGraphics library.  There’s also a bunch of other new stuff and bug fixes that you can read about on the GWT Widget Library site.

I just saw an article posted on ONJava.com titled Working with the Google Web Toolkit by Robert Cooper. It’s a good intro to GWT and it goes into more detail than the page on the GWT website.

Want to see all the available user contributed GWT widgets? Ed Burnette has put together a page here that shows all of them in a easy to see table format.

Finally, someone has released an Eclipse plugin for the Google Web Toolkit. Now instead of having to use the command line tools, you can setup your GWT project from within the Eclipse IDE. You can download it from here.

Let me add some additional instructions since the website is a little sparse on details. First of all, it seems to requires Java 5.0.

• To install, unzip into your eclipse directory.
• Start Eclipse and go to Window->Preferences->Googlipse in the menu.
• GWT home should be set to where you installed your GWT libraries (ex. c:\gwt-windows-1.0.21)
• To Create a GWT project
• • File -> New -> Project… and select Gwt Project.
  • Type in your Project Name and hit Finish.
• To Create a GWT module
• • Right click on your newly create Project, choose New -> Other, and select Gwt Module.
  • Hit the Create button to define the package structure of your project.
  • Type the name of your module in the ‘Names:’ field and hit Finish.
  • Voila! You have a basic GWT project setup.