Angel Hurtado wrote a nice tutorial on how to use the GWT with PHP/MySql on the backend. It uses JSON to communicate between client and server.

http://angel.hurtado.googlepages.com/tutorialgwt2

It looks like some people are starting to put together some GWT components. This site here is attempting to collect all these components into one place. I’ve actually tried the Auto-Completion textbox and it seems to work very well.

Someone else put up a demo of their auto-complete implementation. They mention they will have source for it soon too.

So I finally had some time to download the Google Web Toolkit SDK. My first disappointment was that there is no Mac version, so I couldn’t use my brand spanking new mac mini. Oh well. Windows it is.

The first problem I encountered was getting the thing to run in Eclipse. The says:

Just click the green “Run” button at the top of the window to start your project in .

I clicked my green button but there were no launch configurations. I didn’t see any mains or anything so off I went to the discussion forum. I finally found this that discusses my exact problem. Basically, you need to copy your .launch file into your workspace\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.debug.core\.launches directory. That will cause a launch configuration to show up. Bingo. I’m off and running now.

Update 5/19/06: I did an install of the gwt toolkit on another computer and the launch configuration did appear automatically. Maybe I’m just blind.