A couple of weeks ago I wrote a GWT 2.0 tutorial for passing simple values to a widget and this is the (promised) follow up on how to pass an object to a widget. For more info on working with the new UiBinder, see Declarative Layout with UiBinder at…
I've been working on a somewhat large and complex GWT project using UiBinder over the past couple of weeks. I've built a number of widgets that use the SuggestBox and MultiWordSuggestOracle but I created a new UiBinder, populated the suggestions but they came up blank in the type-ahead. After about…
I received a number of emails regarding my last post, GWT UiBinder Hello World Tutorial, specifically how to pass values into widgets using the new GWT 2.0 UiBinder. Here's a small tutorial on one of the ways in which you could do that. I plan on another tutorial on…
I've been working on a new project the past couple of weeks that (fortunately) requires Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and I wanted to use the new UiBinder that was released with GWT 2.0 in early December for a number of reasons (clean separation of UI and code, easier collaboration…
Google released Google Web Toolkit 2.0 (GWT) yesterday with some really cool features and improvements. For those of you not familiar with GWT, it is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. You write your front-end code in Java and it is auto-magically compiled into cross…
The first milestone build for GWT 2.0 was released a couple of days ago with an announcement on Google Groups. You can download the M1 zip here. Some of the cool new features in GWT 2.0 include: In-Browser Development Mode - now you can develop in your favorite…
I installed Snow Leopard the other day in under 60 minutes without a hitch.... or so I thought. When trying to run my App Engine project with GWT, I received the following fatal error: You must use a Java 1.5 runtime to use GWT Hosted Mode on Mac OS…
GWT Portlets is a free open source web framework for building GWT applications. It defines a very simple & productive programming model to build good looking, modular GWT applications. The programming model is somewhat similar to writing JSR168 portlets for a portal server (Liferay, JBoss Portal etc.). The "portal&…
I caught this off of Iein Valdez's Twitter feed yesterday: Adrien Ancelin: "For all the GWT-Enthusiasts around here, the official GWT repository now includes a preview version of a very promising 2.0 feature : Ui Binder. I wrote a very simple yet efficient example of UiBinder in action and uploaded…
A couple of the guys and myself at Appirio are writing a beginning Google App Engine with Java book to be released this fall. We've locked down the functionality of the app we are going to be discussing in the book but I would like to put the app out…