I apologize for the lack of updates over the past 6 weeks. But I’m back now.

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  Great article by Bruce Johnson explaining the new JavaScript overlay types that were introduced in GWT 1.5.
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  Samantha Lemonnier from the Google Health team shares her team’s experience with deciding upon and ultimately using GWT for their project.
• Speeding up the GWT compiler Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3
  Olivier has an interesting blog post about speeding up the GWT compiler by trying to reduce the number of permutations in his gwt module file.
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  Khun Yee Fung shares his experiences on the GWT group with building his GWT based job site (http://www.careercommons.com)
• Restlet ported to GWT!
  With the introduction of generics in GWT 1.5 RC1, the Restlet API has now been ported over to GWT.

• The presentations from the Google I/O conference are now online:
  • (Bruce Johnson)
  • (Bruce Johnson)
  • (Ray Cromwell)
  • (Miguel Mendez)
  • (Miguel Mendez)
  • (Bob Vawter)
  • (Alex Moffat and Damon Lundin)
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  This new release includes message publish/subscribe (PageBus) support for FF3, GWT 1.5 RC1 support, and bug fixes. Good to see the GWT-Ext project moving forward.
• New GWT Theme: Pinky?
  Dietrich Kappe shows the process of building his own GWT theme.
• GWT Reflection
  A new project which allows you to use the reflection API in your GWT applications.

is a library for GWT that includes many cool utilities, like databinding, animation, reflection, and more. Like many GWT projects over the past couple of weeks, Gwittir 0.4.4 has now been updated to support the latest GWT 1.5 release. However, there are some other interesting goodies as well. The big thing that caught my eye was the new Joda Time integration. If you have ever been frustrated by GWT’s lack of java.util.Calendar support, you’ll love this, as it makes it easy to do date manipulations in your applications. Also in this release is a new ContextMenuPanel, for right-click context menus and a new Reflection system that takes advantage of the method inlining features of the GWT 1.5 compiler.

If you’re interested in learning more about Gwittir, you can also check out the article I wrote on Gwittir Databinding.