GWT Designer v7.0 Beta Available

[Eric Clayberg]

A beta of the forthcoming GWT Designer v7.0 is now available for Windows, Linux & OSX.

Update site: http://download.instantiations.com/D2GW ... ate/E-3.4/



This release includes full support for GWT-Ext (widgets, panels, menus and layouts) as well as UI Factories.



This should be installed into a clean copy of Eclipse 3.4 that does not have any earlier version of GWT Designer (e.g., v6.9.0) installed.

Updated preliminary docs are available here.

All bug reports should be sent to wb-support@instantiations.com.

[Gopinath]

I guess it does not include support for GWT1.6 RC2 released by Google recently. There is nothing mentioned about the supported versions of GWT in What's new section of the documentation link provided in the post.

I am eagerly waiting for GWT1.6 support. GWT1.6 RC2 seems to be very much matured release and since it is standards based, it is easier to extend support for it.

[Eric Clayberg]

We plan to support GWT 1.6 once it is released.

[mkn]

Okay, looking interesting.. Now, is there a how-to for including GWT-Ext functionality to an application. So far I have only been successful in crashing the designer and getting weird error messages. I understand this is beta but a 10-line "do this" would be handy in any case.

[Eric Clayberg]

is there a how-to for including GWT-Ext functionality to an application.

You can either follow the instructions on the GWT-Ext web site or you can right-click on the module folder and select the Configure for using GWT-Ext command as mentioned a few weeks ago.

[vampie]

I have two question;

1 ) Does this 7.x have the same code base with 6.9.x ? ( I asked coz I wonder if it still has FreeBSD support )

2 ) Are there any update link (yet) or just zip files to install manually ?

Btw thx for great effort

[Eric Clayberg]

1 ) Does this 7.x have the same code base with 6.9.x ? ( I asked coz I wonder if it still has FreeBSD support )
2 ) Are there any update link (yet) or just zip files to install manually ?

It is a new code base at the editor and parsing level, but shares the same GWT core/rendering code as 6.9.x.

The update site is here

Not that we plan to maintain the 6.9.x code base in parallel with 7.x for at least six months, if not longer.

[mkleweno]

I am curious to know why GWT Designer has decided to support GWT-Ext instead of SmartGWT? Even the GWT-Ext team has recommended users to migrate to SmartGWT. http://gwt-ext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3465

I think the additional widget support is great. It just makes me uneasy to know that the library you are supporting is no longer being developed.

[cyril.lakech]

Great news to see a GWT library supported by instantiations.

Next step would be smartGWT and GXT... much work to do !

But I don't understand why you don't want to support GWT 1.6 ??? The release candidate is here => http://groups.google.com/group/Google-W ... ec0e014f9f

Now you must support this version ! You promise on the forum ^^

[Eric Clayberg]

I am curious to know why GWT Designer has decided to support GWT-Ext instead of SmartGWT? Even the GWT-Ext team has recommended users to migrate to SmartGWT. I think the additional widget support is great. It just makes me uneasy to know that the library you are supporting is no longer being developed.

We plan to support SmartGWT as well, but GWT-Ext is stil the most popular GWT add-on library by a factor of ten or more.

For every 10 GWT-Ext requests we get, we get maybe 1-2 EXT GW (GXT) requests and maybe 1 SmartGWT request.

GWT-Ext has been out tere for awhile; it is well known, and it is relatively stable.

SmartGWT is good, but it is also relatively new and unknown and a rapidly moving target (which is not good from our point of view given the large amount of custom support work needed for any library like that).

[Eric Clayberg]

Next step would be smartGWT and GXT

Yes.

But I don't understand why you don't want to support GWT 1.6 ?

Huh? We never said that. We said that we would support 1.6 once it is actually released.

The release candidate is here
Now you must support this version ! You promise on the forum

A "release candidate" is not a release; it is a near final beta.

Based on prior history, it could be anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months before 1.6 is actually released.

Also based on prior history, there could still be significant changes between the release candidate and the final release.

Given how much work we have to do to support any new GWT release, we would rather do this work once based on the final release.

[jamesdcarroll]

Based on prior history, it could be anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months before 1.6 is actually released.

Let's hope they release it before they release GMail

[Eric Clayberg]

You can look at the GWT release history to get a sense of how long it takes between release candidate to final release.

The problem that we have seen is that they often still make very substantial changes during that period which can cause a lot of rework on our part.

[jominor]

A beta of the forthcoming GWT Designer v7.0 is now available for

This should be installed into a clean copy of Eclipse 3.4 that does not have any earlier version of GWT Designer (e.g., v6.9.0) installed.

So, if we have an existing eclipse *and* GWT Designer installation, do we just uninstall GWT Designer, or would we need a completely separate install of Eclipse for the beta?

And woo-hoo!

[Eric Clayberg]

If you want to run the v6.9.x and v7.0 versions together (which is possible), you should update to v6.9.1 first.

Otherwise, it would be better to install 7.0 into an environemnt that did not have v6.9.x installed.