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.

George Georgovassilis has been working on tweaking the Spring integration in the GWT-SL. The fixes concentrate around exception translation for SerializableException instances and correct invocation of proxied services.

For more information on the GWTHandler you can read George's GWTHandler article.

It has been nearly a month since the last release of both libraries, which is the longest we have gone between releases. Because of the long delay, and the fact that we still aren't quite ready to release the new additions, we felt it was time to provide a quick preview of things to come.

Joe Toth has been hard at work creating a pagination widget, and a wrapper for the popular TinyMCEEditor. Jason Essington has provided a NumberFormat class, adding some long needed support for this. And George Georgovassilis has continued his work on the Spring support by adding exception translation and a host of test cases.

Besides this there are a few other odds that will probably make their way into the next version as well. Currently the target for the next release of both libraries is October 23rd.

Mostly bug fixes this release. There are some things in the works, but they aren't quite ready yet.

• Patch GWTSpringController for missing interface (George Georgovassilis)
• Patch LightBox for browser resize issue (Jason Paignigiannes)
• Patch LightBox for GWT 1.1.10 transparancy issue in IE (Robert Hanson)
• New constructors for CalendarPanel which take a date (Robert Hanson)
• New methods for CalendarPanel to set current month (Ilia Pritzker)
• Depricated GWTSpringController, it is now part of the GWT Server Library

This is our first release of a server only distribution for GWT. It currently contains the latest version of the GWTSpringController as well as the new GWTHandler, both of which are the work of George Georgovassilis.

The GWTSpringController in the GWT-WL will be depricated and eventually removed, so you should use this use the one in this GWT-SL distribution instead.

Enjoy.

Added two new components:

• New LightBox component (Brian Glick)
• New ProgressBar component + sample CSS (Bjarne Matzen)

There are also a few minor patches:

• Patch SimpleDateFormat for incorrect month formatting (Alex Bahlai)
• Patch Effect for incorrect moveBy signature (Robert Hanson)
• Patch TMouseListenerCollection for erronous exceptions (Robert Light)

Enjoy.

Google released a new version of GWT today, version 1.1.0. There were some API changes made that broke a few things in the GWT-WL, namely the FormPanel and SVG support. This release is to make the GWT-WL compatible with the latest GWT release. Below are a list of changes.

FormPanel
* return type for FormPanel.add to void from boolean
* depricated

FileUploadField
* depricated

SVGContainerBase
* Minor change, does not affect API

The version number jumped up to 0.1.0 to match the jump made by GWT, signifying compatibility with that release. If you are still using GWT 1.0.21 you should not upgrade to this version.

What's New in 0.0.8

* Added SimpleDateFormat (Jason Essington)

If you have been struggling with formatting dates, this should help a lot. It handles commonly date format codes.

* Added CookieUtils (Brian Glick)

I have seen a lot of people asking for this one. You can use this to get a list of cookies, set cookies, and delete them. Supports setting of expiration date and path.

* Added TFlexTable to fix removeRow() bug (Iancu Mihai)

There was a long thread about this a couple of weeks ago. Iancu offered a fix on the list, and gave me permission to add it to the library.

* Fixed GWTSpringController for NPE in hosted-mode (George Georgovassilis)

If you have been getting null pointer exceptions when using the Spring integration, this should solve the problem.

As recently pointed out on the developers list, there are certain questions that are asked frequently. This FAQ will hopefully answer some of those questions before they are asked. This FAQ is bare bones at the moment, so suggestions for new FAQ entries would be appreciated.

A big thanks goes out to Adam Tacy and George Georgovassilis for their help with this release. The highlights for this release include a Google AJAX Search API, the addition of callbacks to the Scriptaculous
library, and a highly customizable calendar panel.

If there is a widget you would like us to add, please visit the page below and let us know what you need.
http://roberthanson.blogspot.com/2006/07/see-need-fill-need.html

Change Log:

* Added widget for Google AJAX Search API (Adam Tacy)

* Added callbacks for Scriptaculous events [1524442] (George Georgovassilis)

* Added GWTSpringController (George Georgovassilis)

* Added CalendarPanel/CalendarFactory widget (Robert Hanson)

* Added SVGText widget (Robert Hanson)

* Added TGrid widget (Robert Hanson)

* Scriptaculous bug fix for Safari [1524683] (Jason Essington)

* Allow cancelling of EditableLabel [1518134] (Adam Tacy)