GWT 1.6 M1 Release

Hi every GWT fans !

Just a post to relay the GWT 1.6 M1 release yesterday !

Here is the original announce on the GWT group:

http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/3e7e6cc3b35ad98a

You can download it on the GWT download page:

http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/downloads/list?can=1&q=1.6.0

Or here directly if you can wait to get it :

http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/files/gwt-windows-1.6.0.zip

To remember you, here is the GWT 1.6 roadmap from the google web site here:

http://code.google.com/intl/fr/webtoolkit/makinggwtbetter.html#roadmap

Release 1.6

Anticipated Time Frame - Q1 2009

• New compiled file deployment structure
• Easily compile into a WAR file, making it easy to deploy your compiled GWT application into standard servlet containers
• Migration from Tomcat to Jetty hosted mode server
• A more pluggable architecture for the hosted mode server will enable developers to use servlet containers other than Tomcat with the Hosted Mode browser
• Uniform event handlers
• Event handlers will be implemented in a uniform fashion across all widgets, with listeners deprecated
• DatePicker, LazyPanel migrated in from incubator
• New widgets from the incubator
• String performance improvements
• StringBuilder uses deferred binding to optimize string appends per-browser
• Compiler performance improvements
• 1.6 will introduce parallel permutation compilations and other performance tweaks for faster compiles

Hope that helps !