GWT 2.1 Milestone 1 is now available

With GWT 2.1 Milestone 1, you are one step closer to being able to build business apps for the cloud as easily as ever. Using GWT’s new data presentation widgets and MVP framework, you can create great looking web apps that run fast, whether you’re interacting with 25 records or 25 million records. This is accomplished by designing the widgets to be extremely lightweight, using DIVs and HTML instead of composites and widgets, and an app framework that makes it easy to fetch only the data you need, when you need it.

To make building web apps even faster, you can now use VMware’s Spring Roo to create a functional app with a few commands. All of these tools are available, including the Google Plugin for Eclipse and App Engine SDK, within SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) -- providing you an integrated development environment.

And since it’s written using GWT, your resulting app is an HTML5 app that is cloud ready from the beginning.

To get started, check out our GWT for Business and What’s coming in 2.1? sections on the GWT codesite.

Google API Library for GWT updated for GWT 2.0

We are pleased to announce updates to the Google API Libraries for the Google Web Toolkit project. The Google API Libraries for GWT project allows GWT developers to access some of Google's popular JavaScript APIs. This release includes updates of five libraries: Visualization, Gears, Gadgets, Search, Language, and AjaxLoader.

Highlights of this release include:

• Libraries updated to GWT 2.0 compatibility
• Samples refactored to use war project structure
• Added Eclipse project files and ant script to all samples

Visualization:

• Added support for all image-charts: ImageAreaChart, ImageBarChart, ImageLineChart, ImagePieChart, ImageSparklineChart
• Added wrapper for Toolbar
• Updated Visualization API bindings to be up-to-date with published documentation

Gears:

• Added support for the BlobBuilder class and Blob.getBytes() method
Added support for the Gears Canvas and Desktop's BlobMetaData object

Gadgets:

• Added support for multiple views and the Views API mapping

Language:

• Added support for new languages (Amharic, Greek, Persian, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tigrinya, Yiddish)

AjaxLoader:

• Added support for the google.loader.ClientLocation API
• Added support for custom hostnames for enterprise users

For more detailed information please refer to the release notes.

These updates are now available for download at the Google API Libraries for GWT project hosted on Google Code.