A new version of the has been released today. It features improvements to the basic GWT widget set, better widget and panel authoring and a new Rocket widget event system.

Perhaps the most interesting and different change of this release. All Rocket widgets now receive event objects with methods relevent for the event type. In the case of Basic Widgets its events are all typed according to the actual event type being dispatched. That means no more DOM.eventXXX methods.

The folks over at Timepedia have put together a neat little tutorial on how to create an accordion control using GWT.

Now, there are a great many accordion controls in third party JS libraries, many of them very slick and full featured, but I found that I didn’t need so many features, and I’m trying to limit the number of pure-JS library wrappers I use in GWT because you lose alot of the benefits of the GWT Compiler when you wrap external JS libraries.

How hard could it be to cook up one in GWT? It turns out, not very hard it all.

Eclipse committer Tom Schindl has written a blog post taking the Eclipse JFace Viewer and Databinding concepts and applying them to GWT.

Without question much of the Databinding-Framework is not working but at this stage I don’t mind. The good thing is that all those low-level modules use only classes already available from GWT so porting the whole framework is only a matter of time.

For those who have done some SWT/JFace programming, this is quite interesting.