GWT 1.2 Released (Is There a Roadmap?)

Dietrich Kappe, Monday, November 20, 2006 @ 5:00 am

This past Thursday, Google released version 1.2 of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). So what's in this release? Probably the most obvious change is the improved startup times and refreshes. Now the edit-compile-debug cycle is very speedy. Aside from this, what else is in 1.2? Well, lots of bug fixes. Lots and lots of bug fixes.

Even the enhancements look like bug fixes, e.g. Change the text of ListBox item: There is no method to change the text of a an item once it has already been
added, such as listbox.setText(index, newtext).

There are actually four major new features:

• Full support for OS X development
• Much faster hosted mode
• New HTTP request module
• Widgets in TreeItems

A speedier hosted mode is great, as I've already noted, as is support for the Mac and the ability to put anything at all into a Tree widget. The HTTP request module comes from users requests for some more control of the XMLHttpRequest object on the client side. This will make it easier to integrate GWT with existing applications.

I'm filled with curiosity with what is planned for GWT with upcoming releases. I guess that's a key word, "planned." I for one would like to see a nice roadmap for GWT rather than the current vague waffling about. For one, I'd like to see other transport mechanisms supported, such as JSONP. For another, I'd like to see better support for testing with tools such as Selenium.

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