Three big cheers for the GWT community! The posts on the GWT developer forum have been amazing. The posts are interesting technically, and it's great to see everyone supporting each other so courteously. The great discussions (and, of course, the occasional bug reports :-) about GWT 1.1.0 motivated us to do an update as fast as we could, so we've been working extra hard the last couple weeks to turn around another update quickly, and we're happy to announce that GWT 1.1.10 is now available.
Before we get to GWT 1.1.10, some GWT community news:
- Ed Burnette has written the first GWT book! It is a great introduction to GWT and will help you get up to speed quickly if you're just learning GWT.
- Sam Gross wins a GWT T-shirt for pointing out a hugely great optimization for GWT RPC on IE. We implemented this technique in 1.1.10.
- I recently did an interview with Scott Delap at InfoQ discussing GWT 1.1 and a bit of the philosophy of GWT in general.
- I'll be speaking at JavaZone in mid-September and JAOO at the beginning of October.
- After that, Scott Blum will be speaking at the Colorado Software Summit in late October.
Now then, what's been fixed in GWT 1.1.10? The issues list and release notes have the complete list, but here are some highlights:
- Normalized behavior of GWT.getModuleBaseURL() with respect to hosted mode, web mode, RPC, and automatic resource injection [post #1, post #2, post #3]
- i18nCreator fixed to work with Java 5.0 [post]
- I18NSync (and therefore -i18n scripts) changed to replace dots with underscores when generating method names [post]
- Additional character escaping in JSON strings [post]
- Fixed bug calling toString() on nested JSON objects [post]
- Fixed bug that caused the default font size of text in a FocusPanel to be zero [post]
- Fixed TabPanel.insert() with asHTML argument [post]
- Popups and DialogBoxes no longer underlap lists and combos in IE6 [post]
- DialogBoxes can no longer be dragged beoynd the upper left corner of the browser window [post]
- Buttons inside of FormPanels no longer automatically submit on Firefox; this is still a problem some versions of Safari and Opera [post]
- TabPanel now sets the height of the internal DeckPanel to 100% to ensure all available space is used [post]
- Fixed bug in Mozilla that was causing DialogBox.onKeyPressPreview() to see key as 0 [post]
- Double click now fires correctly on IE6 [post]
- Fixed RPC bug that caused deserialization errors or infinite loops with self-referential object graphs [post]
- Fixed bug in JUnit assertEquals() for floating point values (delta was not honored correctly) [post]
- Fixed internal compiler errors related to nested local subclasses, empty for loop expressions, and no-op unary plus operator. [post #1, post #2, post #3]
- Compiler now handling filesystem symbolic links in project structure [post]
Please try out GWT 1.1.10 and, by all means, keep up the great posts!
