Weekly GWT Links for 4/19/08

April 19th, 2008 - Written by in News

Twubble
  • Twubble interview with Bob Lee
    Twubble is a simple, but useful new GWT application created by Google’s Bob Lee that allows you to find your friend’s friends on Twitter. Watch Dion Almaer’s interview with Bob where they talk about the development of Twubble.
  • GWT in Practice complete
    The latest GWT book by Charlie Collins and Robert Cooper is complete and should be available in paperback very soon. Congratulations guys!
  • Using GWT with Google App Engine
    The Screencast Blog has a couple of screencasts showing how to use GWT in a Google App Engine environment.
  • Five Faves with Ryan Dewsbury
    Ryan, author of the book Google Web Toolkit Applications, lists some of his favorite resources for GWT and web development in general.

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Weekly GWT Links for 4/12/08

April 12th, 2008 - Written by in News

GWT-in-the-Air

  • A new project which aims to make the Adobe AIR API available for GWT using JSNI. No source code is available yet, but there’s a demo of the GWT Showcase as an AIR application.
  • Gwt-Ext and Google Maps
    Abhijeet Maharana has written up a nice tutorial on how to use the new Gwt-Ext Mapstraction API.
  • Wordrosia
    A puzzle game written in GWT. Doesn’t look like much at first glance, but I was playing it and it was actually kind of fun.
  • HtmlUnit 2.0 released
    HtmlUnit is a headless Java browser that simulates IE and Firefox. It has been tested to work with GWT 1.4.60.
  • Vector Graphics with GWT and Dojo
    Neat demo of using GWT and Dojo to display vector graphics.

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GWT 1.5 Milestone 2 available

April 9th, 2008 - Written by in News

The second GWT 1.5 milestone release is now available . New to this release:

  • New DOM API package. Includes bindings for almost the entire DOM spec.
  • Some GWT widgets like popups and trees now include animation effects.
  • New Showcase example.
  • Keyboard support improved.
  • ARIA support for better accessibility.
  • Built-in bi-directional layout support for widgets and panels.
  • Long emulation that transparently maintains Java semantics for the long type in web mode.
  • Single OS X distribution that supports both Leopard and Tiger.

You can read the full announcement . Try out the new release and let the GWT developers know if you find any problems.

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