JavaScript Overlay Types in GWT
Bruce Johnson of the GWT team has continued the deep dive into GWT with a posting on a new GWT 1.5 feature: JavaScript overlay types. This feature goes beyond the JNSI technique to "make it easy to...
View ArticleSmartGWT: LGPL GWT wrapper on SmartClient
Sanjiv Jivan, original creator of GWT-Ext, posted on SmartGWT, a new wrapper on top of SmartClient. Charles Kendrick of Isomorphic, creator of SmartClient, announced the new project as well as the...
View ArticleGALGWT 1.0… it isn’t a land next to Mordor
GWT has long had a project that aimed to give rich support for Google APIs called GALGWT, or "Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit". This project has stepped up to higher gear recently, and we...
View ArticleGWT 1.5 final release is shipped and out the door
I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete: GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of...
View ArticleExt GWT 1.1 Released
Darrell Meyer has announced the release of Ext GWT 1.1 which is said to "shortens the feature set gap between Ext JS." New Features The Grid component wraps the Ext JS grid, and it includes support...
View ArticleVista / OS X Mash-up Created with GWT on PHP
Here's an interesting link for a Friday. Viktor Zeman on Quality Unit sent us a link to "PostAffiliateXpress", some boring IT application with an interesting interface and an even more intriguing...
View ArticlePyjamas: GWT for Python
Last week, we posted a story about deploying GWT to PHP back-ends. We've got another GWT-ish post this week: Pyjamas, a sort of GWT for Python. The SourceForge project page has a brief overview and...
View ArticleChess Diagram Builder and Maps Library via GWT
Alexander (aka Sasha) Maryanovsky has been hacking away with GWT, and has some come up with a couple of interesting project. The first, is a fun chess diagram builder that lets you build out a chess...
View ArticleAbstractCanvas: HTML Canvas and Java2D in one fell swoop
Rodrigo Reyes has announced a new project called AbstractCanvas, a GWT project that sits on top of HTML Canvas and Java2D. The same code can thus run in the browser, or on the server. You can then...
View ArticleSmartGWT 1.0: Huge open source widget set and more
You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0. It is a...
View ArticleSendMeHome with GWT
SendMeHome lets you to assign a unique code, called a SendMeHome ID, to any physical item. We are launching our newest feature, Stories, which connects a group of people through an item as it travels...
View ArticleTimescope: to mobile and beyond
Ray Cromwell has the ability to do amazing things in the browser. We have often linked to his work on Chronoscope and more, and this time he has a screencast showing of Timescope "our charting engine,...
View ArticlePiano Etudes: Garage Band, Piano Style
What would a fun Ajax interface to piano composition look like? Jason Freeman, a prof in the music department of the Georgia Institute of Technology has created an interface using GWT called Piano...
View ArticleIT Mill Toolkit 5 out of Beta
With the release of IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0, the server-side RIA framework is now ready for production. I announced the initial release of 5.0 back in December of 2007. Since that time, IT Mill 5 has...
View ArticleGChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts. John told us:...
View ArticleBe your company MVP with GWT!
Sorry about the cheesy title, I couldn't resist. In one of those moods I guess. Chris Lowe has posted a detailed example of a new-age GWT application that uses lots of cool tech based on Ray Ryans talk...
View ArticleSpeed Tracer: Google announces new tools and more thanks to the GWT team
Here is Speed Tracer, the new tool to aid us Web developers in our quest for great applications: Ben and I are at Google Campfire One with a Who's Who from the Web developer space. When I first met the...
View ArticleSmart GWT 2.0 turns a year old and get a blue skin for its birthday
Sanjiv Jivan has released Smart GWT 2.0, a big release for the project. The core updates are: GWT 2.0 support Smart GWT supports GWT 2.0 and continues to remain compatible with GWT 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7....
View ArticleAre browsers Quake-ing in their boots?
Ben and I are often touting the fact that we are about to see amazing Web applications as browsers support more and more of “HTML5″ and the engines under the hood have become world class. The GWT team...
View ArticleSmart GWT 2.4 Released
Smart GWT 2.4 has been released and, as expected, they are jumping on the HTML5 and iOS/Touch bandwagon. The fact that the touch support doesn’t require code changes for existing apps is most welcome....
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