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.

• GWT: The Road To 1.5, Part 1 – In this article, Ray Cromwell highlights GWT 1.5’s zero overhead Javascript Interop improvements.
• 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.
• GWT-SL 0.1.4d Released – Maintenance release for the GWT Server Library.
• GWT-Ext UX Contest – Sanjiv Jivan is giving away licenses of GWT-Plus to users who create GWT-Ext extensions.
• – 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!