David Chandler from Sencha answered a question about widgets and GWT 3.0: https://www.sencha.com/forum/showthread.php?306057-GWT-3.0-Sencha-GXT-and-the-future-of-the-widget-eco-system-....
"Thanks for the kinds words about GXT. We still don't have any more info on GWT 3 than what has been publicly shared at GWT.create in January and the subsequent meetup in May, but we definitely plan to support GWT 3 one way or another. When Google speaks of "removing widgets," I think their first concern is to reduce the support burden of all the individual Widgets currently in GWT, which few Google projects actually use. However, even if they remove the Widget and Cell base classes altogether, it should still be possible to write new base classes using the new DOM impl in GWT 3 as you point out, and this would indeed make a nice open source project. GXT widgets already extend our own base class (Component) which extends Widget, so it is theoretically straightforward to rebase our widgets to use a new DOM implementation. We are still evaluating alternatives at this point, but it is always our goal to make it as easy as possible for GXT customers to keep up with the latest versions of GWT.Given my understanding of the motivation for the proposed removal of Widget in GWT 3, I would hope that Google would be open to leaving some Widget base classes in GWT itself, but if not, I think a separate project is a great idea. If I were you, though, I would probably wait to see what GWT 3 actually brings. We're still waiting for 2.8, after all." -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/9ac3abe5-0320-41d8-b1d3-0880e9caa479%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
