Well, it’s finally here! It’s been more than five months since it was first announced, but today is the day we can finally get our hands on the final release of GWT 1.5. Congrats to the GWT team and the whole GWT community for making this release happen.

Since GWT manager, Bruce Johnson can do a much better job explaining all the new features of this release than I can, go check out the for the official announcement. For those others who can’t wait, here’s the official .

Now that the final release of GWT 1.5 is here, what do you want to see in the next version?

• SmartGWT : GWT API’s for SmartClient
  Sanjiv is back and now he’s working on SmartGWT, a port of the SmartClient library. Hopefully we’ll see some code over the next couple of months. Check out the SmartClient developers blog as well for additional details.
• First glimpse at the new BPM console
  It’s great that JBoss seems to be embracing GWT and is starting to use it with a lot of their products.
• Developing Web 2.0 Apps with the Google Web Toolkit, Part Two
  In the second part of his series, GWT team member Sumit Chandel has written a comprehensive tutorial on GWT server communication.
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  This new build has a couple of bug fixes and enhancements.

• Cubicle Animals
  A 3D Tetris game written using GWT and Google App Engine. Very cool!
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  A new chart widget for GWT based on Open Flash Chart 2. Make sure to check out the demos.
• GWT-Ext enhanced HTMLEditor
  It’s great to see that Dan Greenfield’s HtmlEditor is being added as a GWT-Ext User Extension.
• Donde Repostar Gasolina
  A GWT based search engine which can be used to find gas stations in Spain.
• GWT Generator Experiments
  Alex Moffat has written a nice, easy to follow article discussing GWT Generators.
• Google Web Toolkit as a Sprinkle-On-Top AJAX solution?
  Would you use GWT to enhance an existing application?