Docker is one the most popular tools, if not the most popular, for virtual "infrastructure". It provides a special lightweight vm-like structure called containers that can be used for packaging, building, and deploying an application...
Dockerizing a GWT app
GWT HTTP requests alternatives
For several reasons, many GWT users ditched the RPC mechanism which is the standard way offered by GWT to call the backend. They found themseleves lost between GWT RequestBuilder and other external librairies which may or may not fit their application model...
Version 0.4 of gwty-leaflet is available
We introduced a new change in the options object, so we bumped [gwty-leaflet](https://github.com/gwidgets/gwty-leaflet) to version 0.4-SNAPSHOT straight from 0.3-SNAPSHOT ( 0.3 did not get a release)...
A GWT maven progressive web app archetype is up on Github
Because developing a progressive web app tutorial from scratch can be mind-boggling, we created a GWT progressive web application structure with; an app shell for fast painting, service workers for offline usage, and a manifest file for installation to home screen. The archetype uses some Polymer elements...
Serializing/Deserializing Json in GWT
There was recently an interesting discussion in GWT Users group about best practices for serializing/deserializing JSON in the client side....
Progressive Web apps recipes for GWT
If you have been designing or developing web applications for a while, you would have probably came across the term Progressive Web application a tons of times, and will probably do so for the coming years. You probably wondered what exactly is the definition of PWAs, how we identify one...
New Maven archetypes for GWT
e created a bunch of maven archetypes to help GWT developers get started, and overcome the blank page syndrome. The archetypes are focused on the UI for now. Tha available archetypes use Polymer which is a modern framework for web components...
JsInterop, Web Components, Polymer: A beginner’s guide
Back when GWT was released, there wasn’t that much of Javascript libraries, so having a two way interoperability between Java and JS was not that attractive. GWT offered a way to write Javascript inside Java classes using JSNI. But now with the changing landscape of the Javascript ecosystem, GWT developers need something more elaborate than JSNI...
gwty-leaflet: a new Leaflet wrapper for GWT is available on Github
We have just commited our new Leaflet jsinterop wrapper to Github. You can use Leaflet from your GWT app exactly in the same way as as you do from a javascript with slight advantage; static typing. The java code was partially auto-generated from Leaflet docs...
GWT Polymer Starter is on GitHub
We created a new project hoping that it will help the GWT community on getting started with gwt-polymer-elements which is Polymer’s version for GWT. The project is an adaptation of the Polymer Starter Kit developed by the Polymer team. The project is up on...