March 10th, 2008 - Written by in Contests
It’s finally the time to announce the winners of GWT Designer Contest #2. There were a total of 125 entries for the contest. Every email subscription got one entry and commentors received 2 or 4 entries for their comments as described in the contest rules.
As mentioned in the contest post, I selected the winners by entering all the email addresses at http://www.random.org/lists and selecting the top three emails as the winners.
Winners
- John Grantham
- Gopi Prathapineni
- Daniel Boromisa
Congratulations to the winners. I’m sending you guys emails and you’ll need to respond to claim your prize. Thanks to Instantiations for making these subscriptions available for me to give away. For those who didn’t win, try the 14 day free trial of GWT Designer and see if you like it. You’ll definitely learn to appreciate it when doing GWT development.
March 8th, 2008 - Written by in News
Of course, the biggest news of the week was the release of GWT 1.5 milestone 1. Still, there were several other GWT related items as well.
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GWT: The Road To 1.5, Part 1 – In this article, Ray Cromwell highlights GWT 1.5’s zero overhead Javascript Interop improvements.
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High Performance Ajax with GWT – InfoQ has published a sample chapter (Integrating with a GWT-RPC Servlet) from Ryan Dewsbury’s book, Google Web Toolkit Applications.
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GWT-SL 0.1.4d Released – Maintenance release for the GWT Server Library.
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GWT-Ext UX Contest – Sanjiv Jivan is giving away licenses of GWT-Plus to users who create GWT-Ext extensions.
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– There’s a lively thread over on the GWT Google Groups about the pros and cons of using GWT.
If you haven’t already, make sure to enter our GWT Designer contest. The contest ends this Monday, March 10 at Noon PST. We are currently at 96 entries in the contest for 3 prizes, so your odds of winning are still quite good. Don’t miss out!
March 7th, 2008 - Written by in News
GWT 1.5 is almost here! The first milestone build is now for download. New features include:
- Full Java 5 support. You are now free to now use generics, enums, annotations and other Java 5 syntax features in your code.
- Generics support for RPC.
- Ability to subclass JavaScriptObject.
- Standards support by the UI Library.
You can read Bruce Johnson’s full announcement . Check it out and let the GWT developers know if you run across any issues.
