Introduction to Errai Framework

Errai is a framework developed and maintained by Red Hat in an attempt to combine the good aspects of the GWT and JEE worlds. According to Red Hat, Errai is a GWT-based framework for building rich web applications using next-generation web technologies...

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Options objects bug in gwty-leaflet is fixed now.

A member of the users community reported a bug recently related with the use of TileLayerOptions object. The reason for that is this code:...

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New feature in gwty-leaflet: debug/prod mode.

We have added a new feature to gwty-leaflet, choosing whether the injected script is minified or no...

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Vaadin Tip: building UIs declaratively

If you have used GWT, then you would have probably found UiBinder quite useful to design complex UIs. In our series of posts about Vaadin, we want to draw parallels between Vaadin and GWT. Vaadin offers several tools and components out of the box for building complex and good looking UIs...

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No more JSNI for gwty-leaflet

gwty-leaflet is mainly using Jsinterop for interfacing with LeafletJs. However, we have been using a little JSNI for defining Event objects, and the reason behind that was to benefit from the .cast() method for casting from the parent Event object to other types of child objects...

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Quick Tip: Debugging a GWT application using Chrome Dev tools

Debugging is an important aspect of software development. Having the right tools can save a lot of time and headaches. Before GWT Super Dev mode, the classic Dev mode allowed to use JVM debugging...

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Dependency injection in GWT using Dagger 2

Dependency injection is a software development concept where objects are provided with all the objects or values than they need for creation. GWT users have been familiar with GIN, but this last has been deprecated and is not supported anymore, so applications using GIN currently need really to say farewell...

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Overview of Scala.js from a GWT developer perspective

This blog is heavily biased towards GWT (and GWT based frameworks), but we are keeping in my mind that GWT may be taken over by other technologies in the future, so we are always open to exploring other platforms/frameworks...

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G-Widgets is now partner of the GwtCon 2017

After watching the community feel for the project for a while, we have decided to shutdown the project. The objective of the project was to provide help with the initial bootstrap of a GWT app...

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TIP: Running GWT dev mode on Spring Boot Embeded Server

Spring Boot is a framework that provides auto configuration capabilities to quickly package and deploy Spring ecosystem based applications. It allows developers to focus the core function of their application...

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