RequestFactory is proving itself useful in non-GWT contexts, so we would like to give it more independence. Our plan with the GWT 2.3 release is to copy com.google.gwt.requestfactory to com.google.requestfactory, and deprecate everything in the old location. We will also provide a jar that includes the pure JRE version of request factory with no other GWT dependencies. (This change will probably not make the first 2.3 milestone release.)
With 2.4, we'll delete the code in the old location. This is faster than usual promise of keeping deprecated code in place for two releases, but we really don't want to leave so much redundant code around any longer than we have to. The API will not change; client code should be able to migrate by simply by changing import statements. Reactions? rjrjr -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
