Comments on: GWT IDE Goodness

By: Dietrich Kappe

Dietrich Kappe — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:22:05 +0000

@Pavel:

“Works with” and “supports” are two different things. For example, does the automatic code generation for GWT-RPC work with the new Java 1.5 style?

By: Pavel Lahoda

Pavel Lahoda — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:05:30 +0000

@Dietrich : Yes, GWT4NB supports GWT 1.5. You only have to increase the heap space for GWT compiler, which is reset to default value each time you switch between project, but otherwise it works well. Howerver, I wasn’t able to run my application in Hosted mode, thus I have to compile to JS each time I want to run my application, but this seems to be only a “feature” of GWT on Mac.

By: Igor

Igor — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:24:20 +0000

I use Cypal now and it works well. I will try gwt-pf (http://gwt.org.ua/en/about/), too. There is a nice
Eclipse readme at: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit-incubator/wiki/MakingIncubatorBetter.

By: alex.d

alex.d — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:50:56 +0000

And don’t forget the GWT-Designer. It’s now supporting GWT 1.5 RC1.

By: Dietrich Kappe

Dietrich Kappe — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:25:40 +0000

@fat

GWT4NB? I didn’t think that supported GWT 1.5 yet. Do you know otherwise? That would be great news.

By: Dietrich Kappe

Dietrich Kappe — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:24:50 +0000

@OBender

I’ve used 7.0 with GWT and while it can be made to work, it falls short in supporting many of the new features. Also, lots of the HTML and XML boilerplate that it generates is now suboptimal for 1.5.

By: OBender

OBender — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:05:03 +0000

Nothing stops you from using GWT 1.5 in IntelliJ 7.0 actually.
We successfully migrated to GWT 1.5 about 1 month ago and using IntelliJ 7.0 without any issues.
There is no WYSIWYG support for the forms design but it was not there for 1.4 either so no big deal.

By: Prakash G.R.

Prakash G.R. — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:34:35 +0000

I’ve testing quite a few scenarios before declaring that Cypal Studio works with GWT 1.5. It also creates the Async files appropriately with Generics. Let me know if it doesn’t work in any corner cases. Will be happy to fix it

By: fat

fat — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:06:58 +0000

And what about GWT4NB plugin ? (GWT for Netbeans)

By: Davide Baroncelli

Davide Baroncelli — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:37:03 +0000

I agree: GWT support was half-assed even in the 7.0 release of IDEA, and now they will have production support for GWT 1.5 in a version that won’t be finalized for months. IDEA used to be on the forefront of new features, but they’ve been lagging a lot, since they decided that every half step they do is a new IDE version (…which has to be paid for).