Unfortunately the SL-0.1.4d contains a serious design bug which makes the GWTHandler unusable. Thus I created a new release 0.1.4e which is already up in sourceforge.

Changelog:

• Bug fix in GWTHandler: The service exporter fix in 0.1.4d was revised. A RPCServiceExporterFactory is now used to generate RPCServiceExporter instances. Credits to Andrew McAllister for reporting.
• The NoSuchMethodException which is thrown when a requested method cannot be found on the service not produces a more descriptive message.
• Fixed serialisation policy generation issue with unit tests.
• Fixed documentation bugs.

A new maintainance release 0.1.4d of the SL is out and available on SF.

Changelog:

• Changed service exporter injection in GWTHandler from FactoryBean to RPCServiceExporter, since there was no easy way of setting FactoryBeans and provided a necessary refactoring for GWTRPCServiceExporter to implement an interface. Thanks to Ed for spotting this problem and providing the solution.
• added unittest for hibernate4gwt.
• updated hibernate4gwt to 1.0.3, spring to 2.0.8
• fixed unit test
• fixed comments in web.xml
• updated build script
• fixed copyright notices
• restructured build process

Dear All

I am happy to announce the 0.1.4c version of the SL which is as of now available for download [3]. The SL is a sub project of the GWT Widget Library [1] which aids integration of GWT RPC services to Spring by allowing the publication of POJOs as RPC services. While this is a maintainance release, make sure you don't miss the HB4GWTRPCServiceExporter which seamlessly integrates Hibernate4GWT [2] with Spring - special thanks go to Bruno Marchesson.

Changelog:

• Updated dependencies to Spring v2.0.6
• Refactored GWTRPCServiceExporter for easier exception translation
• Refactored GWTHandler to support GWTRPCServiceExporter object factories
• Expanded documentation on exception translation and deployment FAQ
• Added support for Hibernate4GWT
• Reverted copyright notice to plain Apache License 2
• GWTHandler is no longer a FactoryBean - caused semantics mixup when requesting "urlMapping" from application context
• Added new tests
• GWTRPCServiceExporter caches now reflective method lookups for a moderate gain in speed
• Deprecated GWTRPCServiceExporter.getRequest/getResponse
• Added setter for compression logic to GWTRPCServiceExporter

[1] http://gwt-widget.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://hibernate4gwt.sourceforge.net/
[3] http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=169692

Just shaking out a few of the bug in this release. No new features in this release, but you can check out the GWT Sandbox to see what I have been working on. This is for GWT 1.4 users ONLY.

• Fix for JSGraphicsPanel, was broken in GWT 1.4
• Fix for WTextBox, WHyperLink, WPanel, WImage, WButton, some broken in GWT 1.4
• Fix for ToggleButton.toggle() not changing visual representation (Marc Papper)

I uploaded the next release of the GWT-SL (0.1.4) which requires GWT 1.4 to run. There is also now a proper user manual.

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GWT-SL 0.1.4
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• Removed javassist, cglib and the concept of runtime-weaving in general
• Made exception wrapping default for all components
• Duplicated 'mapping' (deprecated) as 'mappings'
• Introduced GWTRPCServiceExporter which publishes real (interface-less) POJOs as RPC services
• Removed the usingInstrumentation property
• Switched entirely to commons logging
• Changed project structure
• Added regular documentation
• Improved building
• Logging more information in debug level
• Refined method inspection
• Rationalised unit tests
• Fixed ReflectionUtils (thanks to Dmitri Shestakov) to compile for 1.4 JDK

</changelog>

NOTE: This release WILL NOT WORK with versions of GWT prior to 1.4

No new widgets at this time, just compatibility changes for GWT 1.4.

• Removed all SVG support, not compatible with GWT 1.4
• Removed deprecated FileUploadField
• Removed deprecated FormPanel
• Removed deprecated GWTSpringController
• Updated GSearch components to work with GWT 1.4
• Deprecated namespace support classes that were used by the SVG widgets: ExtDOM, Namespace, ExtDOMImpl, ExtDOMImplIE6

What do you want first, the good news or the bad news?

The good news is that GWT 1.4 is on it's way with a ton of new features, and you will see a GWT-WL release in the next week or so that is compatible with GWT 1.4.

The bad news is that there are certain features of the GWT-WL that no longer work with GWT 1.4, a notable one being SVG support. We will remove from the GWT-WL any feature that we find to not be compatible with the upcoming version of GWT. We will re-introduce features if workarounds are available, or when a future GWT release allows us to reintroduce them.

For our SVG users, you may want to follow GWT issue 710, and perhaps add a comment. Issue 710 (XHTML support) will need to be resolved before SVG support may be re-introduced.

In addition, we will also take this opportunity to perform some spring cleaning. Widgets that have been deprecated in prior releases are likely to be removed outright. This includes the FormPanel and FileUploadField widgets, and the GWTSpringController which is now part of the GWT-SL.

We hope that during the course of the summer we will get back into the swing of things and start introducing additional widgets to the library. We welcome you to post your suggestions to the See A Need, Fill A Need thread.

*** THIS VERSION FOR USE WITH GWT 1.3 ONLY ***

George Georgovassilis has posted a new release of the GWT-SL to the downloads area, the changelog is below. George has also started a GWT-SL Google group if you are looking for help or have enhancement ideas that you would like to share.

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New features:

• Added GWTController which delegates requests to encapsulated services.
• Reworked the examples
• Reworked the build process
• Added build target which builds java 1.4 jars with 1.5 JDKs
• Added changelog
• Refactored GWTSpringController to use some common code with the new GWTController
• Added ServletUtils helper class which allows access to the invoking thread's ServletRequest and ServletResponse

Changes:

• GWTHandler by default enables now SerializableException translation

Bug fixes

• Added Apache License 2.0 Headers where missing

</changelog>

*** THIS VERSION FOR USE WITH GWT 1.3 ONLY ***

This release includes some enhancements to both the Spring controller and handler tools.

- New static methods in GWTSpringController which allow access to the http request/response through thread locals.

- Added class RequestInjection which facilitates a spring setup to set the current http request/response to services in cases when a compile time dependence on Spring and GWTHandler is not desired.

- Allow plugging into GWTHandler custom implementations of class enhancers

A few new tools have been added in this release, including a number formatting tool (Jason Essington), pagination support (Joe Toth), a wrapper for TinyMCEEditor (Joe Toth), and a new toggle method for the Effect wrapper (Jason Essington).

If you try out the pagination support you should take a look at Joe Toth's article on the new tool.