GWT Designer v4.0.0! - GWT JUnit & MyGWT Support

[Eric Clayberg]

Major new GWT Designer v4.0.0 release includes support for GWT 1.4.61, support for GWT JUnit tests, improved MyGWT support (beta), plus many other new features.

o Support for GWT 1.4.61
o Create GWT JUnit Test Cases
o JUnit GWT Application launch configuration
o Preference for generating Async interfaces for RemoteServices
o Preference to check for Composite default constructors
o Preference to check for client-side compilation issues
o Preference to set the GWT tests source folder
o Search for *.gwt.xml modules in all source folders
o Improved support MyGWT and GWT-EXT

See the New & Noteworthy page.

[alex.d]

Major new GWT Designer v4.0.0 release includes support for GWT 1.4.61, support for GWT JUnit tests, improved MyGWT support (beta), plus many other new features.

o Support for GWT 1.4.61
o Create GWT JUnit Test Cases
o JUnit GWT Application launch configuration
o Preference for generating Async interfaces for RemoteServices
o Preference to check for Composite default constructors
o Preference to check for client-side compilation issues
o Preference to set the GWT tests source folder
o Search for *.gwt.xml modules in all source folders
o Improved support MyGWT and GWT-EXT

Hello Eric,

first of all let me say that you've been doing a great job with GWT-Designer. It's something that my company would like to use in our Web-projects. However we would like to use third-party widget librarys (we have gwt-ext or EXT GWT in mind). So the question is - how enhanced is GWT-Designer support for these librarys(especially for complex widgets)? Can we fully use at least one of them (in designer mode with all other GWT-Designer features) ?

[Eric Clayberg]

GWT Designer has pretty good support for both MyGWT and GWT-Ext, and we plan to add support for EXT GWT later this year.

[alex.d]

GWT Designer has pretty good support for both MyGWT and GWT-Ext, and we plan to add support for EXT GWT later this year.

Thank you for your quick reply Eric.
According to http://mygwt.net, MyGWT doesn't exist any more - it's Ext GWT now. But GWT-Designer doesn't support this new version (of whatever it is) - only the old one? I'm a little confused here - did i get it right?

And about gwt-ext - i read the whole topic about it (viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1719) and it seemed to me that GWT-Designer only supports basic widgets like buttons and checkboxes(though i saw color picker too) but not the really usefull ones like trees and dialog boxes and grids. These last widgets are important for our development - are they fully supported?

[Eric Clayberg]

According to http://mygwt.net, MyGWT doesn't exist any more - it's Ext GWT now. But GWT-Designer doesn't support this new version (of whatever it is) - only the old one? I'm a little confused here - did i get it right?

Yes. EXT GWT is brand new and we plan to add support for it later this year. We already support MyGWT which it is based on.

it seemed to me that GWT-Designer only supports basic widgets like buttons and checkboxes(though i saw color picker too) but not the really usefull ones like trees and dialog boxes and grids. These last widgets are important for our development - are they fully supported?

Have you tried our sample GWT-Ext project yet? GWT Designer supports almost all of the widgets supplied by GWT-Ext including most of the complex ones like Trees and Toolbars. Grids are also supported, but you have to manually create the ColumnModel that you want to use. Some of the panel types are supported as containers, but not all of the panel types are fully supported. Given the licensing issues with ExtJs, I don't know what kind of future GWT-Ext has, so we wil llikely concentrate on EXT GWT going forward.