Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Why the download is marked as deprecated! On Oct 22, 10:43 pm, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the app is downloaded as needed. * Declarative User Interface: GWT's UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively. Previously, widgets had to be created and assembled programmatically, requiring lots of code. Now, you can use XML to declare your UI, making the code more readable, easier to maintain, and faster to develop. The Mail sample has been updated to use the new declarative UI. * Bundling of resources (ClientBundle): GWT has shipped with ImageBundles since GWT v1.4, giving developers automatic spriting of images.
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Since the build is a milestone it is marked as deprecated to keep it out of the list of releases. On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:12 AM, vinays vinay.sek...@gmail.com wrote: Why the download is marked as deprecated! On Oct 22, 10:43 pm, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the app is downloaded as needed. * Declarative User Interface: GWT's UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively. Previously, widgets had to be created and assembled programmatically, requiring lots of code. Now, you can use XML to declare your UI, making the code more
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
No public ETA at this point, but with Milestone 2 behind us and a Release Candidate in front of us we're getting close. Stayed tuned for more info. Thanks, Chris On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:29 AM, Richard richard.wat...@gmail.com wrote: Any rough ETA for final, or it a 'ready-when-its-ready'? Richard On Oct 23, 6:00 pm, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Devraj, As of MS2, your best bet is to check out the updated Mail sample to see how to use some of the new 2.0 features (in particular the XML UI descriptors). We'll have more documentation as we move closer to the final release. - Chris On Oct 22, 7:37 pm, Devraj Mukherjee dev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Is there any documentation that goes with the milstone releases so we can read up on howto use some of these news features? I am particularly interested in the XML UI descriptors. Thanks again. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:43 AM, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0,
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Any rough ETA for final, or it a 'ready-when-its-ready'? Richard On Oct 23, 6:00 pm, Chris Ramsdale cramsd...@google.com wrote: Devraj, As of MS2, your best bet is to check out the updated Mail sample to see how to use some of the new 2.0 features (in particular the XML UI descriptors). We'll have more documentation as we move closer to the final release. - Chris On Oct 22, 7:37 pm, Devraj Mukherjee dev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Is there any documentation that goes with the milstone releases so we can read up on howto use some of these news features? I am particularly interested in the XML UI descriptors. Thanks again. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:43 AM, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
On 23 oct, 01:37, Devraj Mukherjee dev...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any documentation that goes with the milstone releases so we can read up on howto use some of these news features? I am particularly interested in the XML UI descriptors. You can read about it here: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/UiBinder Other new features are also documented on the wiki: UsingOOPHM, CodeSplitting, LayoutDesign, etc. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Google Web Toolkit group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Great work GWT team! Does this release have support for 64 bit Windows in OOPHM? Cheers, Chris. On Oct 22, 6:43 pm, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from:http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the app is downloaded as needed. * Declarative User Interface: GWT's UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively. Previously, widgets had to be created and assembled programmatically, requiring lots of code. Now, you can use XML to declare your UI, making the code more readable, easier to maintain, and faster to develop. The Mail sample has been updated to use the new declarative UI. * Bundling of resources (ClientBundle): GWT has shipped with ImageBundles since GWT
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Devraj, As of MS2, your best bet is to check out the updated Mail sample to see how to use some of the new 2.0 features (in particular the XML UI descriptors). We'll have more documentation as we move closer to the final release. - Chris On Oct 22, 7:37 pm, Devraj Mukherjee dev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Is there any documentation that goes with the milstone releases so we can read up on howto use some of these news features? I am particularly interested in the XML UI descriptors. Thanks again. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:43 AM, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the
Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2.0+Milestone+2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the app is downloaded as needed. * Declarative User Interface: GWT's UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively. Previously, widgets had to be created and assembled programmatically, requiring lots of code. Now, you can use XML to declare your UI, making the code more readable, easier to maintain, and faster to develop. The Mail sample has been updated to use the new declarative UI. * Bundling of resources (ClientBundle): GWT has shipped with ImageBundles since GWT v1.4, giving developers automatic spriting of images. ClientBundle generalizes this technique, bringing the power of combining and optimizing resources into one download to things like text files, CSS, and XML. This means fewer
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Hi John, Is there any documentation that goes with the milstone releases so we can read up on howto use some of these news features? I am particularly interested in the XML UI descriptors. Thanks again. On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:43 AM, John LaBanca jlaba...@google.com wrote: Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2.0+Milestone+2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from MS1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the app is downloaded as needed. * Declarative User Interface: GWT's UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively. Previously, widgets had to be created and assembled programmatically, requiring lots of code. Now, you can use XML to declare your UI, making the code more readable, easier to maintain, and faster to develop. The Mail sample has been
Re: Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
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[gwt-contrib] Announcing GWT 2.0 Milestone 2
Hi everyone, We are excited to release the second milestone build for GWT 2.0 today. This milestone is essentially feature complete, and provides somewhat more stability in the various bits of core functionality that will be coming in GWT 2.0. Please download the distribution from: http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1q=2.0+Milestone+2 Milestone 2 contains a couple new features and changes from Milestone 1: * Layout Panels: Layout panels have been refined since MS1. In particular, the TabLayoutPanel has been introduced, and UiBinder has been extended to support it and StackLayoutPanel. Layout panels use native css, so they resize with the window smoothly (IE6 uses active layout to achieve the same effect, but it is still fast in most cases). When paired with UIBinder, users can create applications faster than ever. (Read more about UiBinder under Declarative User Interface, below.) Breaking changes in MS2: * The way arguments are passed to the GWT testing infrastructure has been revamped (and changed slightly from MS1). There is now a consistent syntax to support arbitrary runstyles, including user- written with no changes to GWT. Though this does not affect common launch configs, some of the less common ones will need to be updated. For example: * '-selenium localhost:/*firefox' has become '-runStyle Selenium:localhost:/*firefox' * '-remoteweb rmi://localhost/ff3' has become '-runStyle RemoteWeb:rmi://localhost/ff3' * '-manual 5' has become '-runStyle Manual:5' Note: run style names must be capitalized (ex. Selenium). Known Issues in MS2: * LayoutPanels only work in strict mode, but new GWT applications are created in quirks mode by default. You must manually switch your application to strict mode by changing the DOCTYPE at the top of your application's html file. Existing widgets that do not work correctly in strict mode (ex. StackPanel) now have a LayoutPanel counterpart that does work in strict mode (ex. StackLayoutPanel). * Connecting multiple browsers at the same time in development mode can cause the development mode server to crash. You can avoid this by waiting for each browser to start your app before connecting another browser. * If you are planning to run the webAppCreator, i18nCreator, or the junitCreator scripts on Mac or Linux, please set the executable bits by doing a 'chmod +x *Creator' * Our HtmlUnit integration is still not complete. Additionally, HtmlUnit does not do layout. So tests can fail either because they exercise layout or they hit bugs due to incomplete integration. If you want such tests to be ignored on HtmlUnit, please annotate the test methods with @DoNotRunWith({Platform.Htmlunit}) To reiterate, here are a few key notes from the Milestone 1 announcement... * Terminology changes: We're going to start using the term development mode rather than the old term hosted mode. The term hosted mode was sometimes confusing to people, so we'll be using the more descriptive term from now on. For similar reasons, we'll be using the term production mode rather than web mode when referring to compiled script. * Changes to the distribution: Note that there's only one download, and it's no longer platform-specific. You download the same zip file for every development platform. This is made possible by the new plugin approach used to implement development mode (see below). The distribution file does not include the browser plugins themselves; those are downloaded separately the first time you use development mode in a browser that doesn't have the plugin installed. * In-Browser Development Mode: Prior to 2.0, GWT hosted mode provided a special-purpose embedded browser to debug your GWT code. In 2.0, the web page being debugged is viewed within a standard browser. Development mode is supported through the use of a native-code plugin for each browser. In other words, you can use development mode directly from Safari, Firefox, IE, and Chrome. * Code Splitting: Developer-guided code splitting allows you to chunk your GWT code into multiple fragments for faster startup. With code splitting, you can arrange to load just the minimum script needed to get the application running and the user interacting, while the rest of the app is downloaded as needed. * Declarative User Interface: GWT's UiBinder now allows you to create user interfaces mostly declaratively. Previously, widgets had to be created and assembled programmatically, requiring lots of code. Now, you can use XML to declare your UI, making the code more readable, easier to maintain, and faster to develop. The Mail sample has been updated to use the new declarative UI. * Bundling of resources (ClientBundle): GWT has shipped with ImageBundles since GWT v1.4, giving developers automatic spriting of images. ClientBundle generalizes this technique, bringing the power of combining and optimizing resources into one download to things like text files, CSS, and XML. This means fewer