The team is as they have just added initial support for the Google Maps and Google AJAX search APIs.

This email is to let you know about a milestone build that we’ve produced to get your feedback on the API and see how well it works for your needs. This is not intended to be used for production, there may be breaking API changes before a true release and please report any bugs over on the issue tracker.

The milestone builds are available here:

http://gwt-google-apis.googlecode.com/files/gwt-google-apis-r41.tar.gz

And a couple of demos can be found here:

BJAX – A Quick Hack for Using GWT with Bookmarklets.

Cypal Studio for GWT – a set of plugins for Eclipse to ease GWT development.

Patch to make GWT Server Library to work with GWT 1.4 final

GWT RPC Screencast – Quick tutorial on how to use GWT RPC in Eclipse.

Mastermind game for iPhone – written in GWT.

Just saw on Slashdot another review of the book GWT in Action. The reviewer, Michael Ross is quite a bit more negative about the book than previous reviews. Although he thought the book was full of practical information, he found the book to be disjointed and disorganized.

The coverage of topics is generally quite thorough, though at times verbose and redundant — particularly in Chapter 2, though it is certainly not limited to that chapter. The second and third paragraphs in Chapter 3, for instance, continue the repetitious style which is found in many places throughout the book, and likely has made it longer than necessary.

The review is quite long and thorough so check it out if you’re interested in purchasing the book.