• Google Web Toolkit 1.6 — Developer’s Guide

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UPDATE: GWT 1.6.3 (RC2) now avaliable for download

Google Web Toolkit 1.6 RC2 Now Available

Posted by Scott Blum - Monday, March 30, 2009 at 7:00:00 PM

The Google Web Toolkit engineering team is happy to announce that the second Google Web Toolkit 1.6 Release Candidate is now available from the project download page for you to try out. (The first GWT 1.6 Release Candidate was announced a couple of weeks ago on the the GWT Developer Forum.)

Developer’s Guide

• Please consider this a draft until GWT 1.6 is officially released

• Google Web Toolkit (GWT) makes it easier to write high-performance AJAX applications. You write your front end in the Java programming language and GWT compiles your source into highly optimized JavaScript.

Upgrading to GWT 1.6

There are four tasks involved when upgrading a GWT 1.5 project to a GWT 1.6 project:

• Download the new JAR files and update your launch configurations.

• GWTShell has been replaced by HostedMode, so you will need to update your Eclipse project settings accordingly.

• GWT now uses a war directory for most public resource and server configuration files. The war directory is a standard directory recognized by many web servers, including GWT hosted mode.

• Event listeners have been replaced by event handlers.