May 3rd, 2011· Google API Discovery and Access - The number of APIs offered by Google continues to grow, and developers are taking advantage of these APIs by including features such as Google Maps overlays, Buzz streams, and Google Docs integration in their apps. To help you build these features GPE 2.3 adds the ability to browse and add Google APIs directly from Eclipse. Simply highlight a project and then select the "Google - Add Google API Reference" menu item to get started.
· Google Project Hosting Integration - GPE 2.3 also provides a simple UI that makes importing Google-hosted projects into Eclipse very easy. You can now click on the GPE icon within Eclipse, select "Add Google APIs..." and, after a few steps in the import wizard, have a project loaded within your workspace. From there, making changes and syncing them back to Project Hosting is all done within the IDE.
· Single Sign-on Support - In order to make it simple to work with these new services, GPE 2.3 has built-in single sign-on support. This allows you to provide Google Account credentials once (using the same authentication mechanisms as Gmail and Google Docs), and deploy to App Engine, add APIs, and import projects from Project Hosting as many times as necessary.
· Local Storage API Availability - One of the key differentiators between legacy desktop apps and modern web apps is their ability to access data quickly and continue to be usable offline. Adding this functionality to your GWT application is now easier with the inclusion of Local Storage APIs in the GWT 2.3 SDK. For more information on how to use these APIs, check out the Local Storage docs.
April 27th, 2011General Enhancements:
Added the following functionality to the Google Plugin for Eclipse:
· Google API integration
· Project import from Google Project Hosting
· Single sign on, for accessing Project Hosting and App Engine
· Added GWT SDK support for HTML5 local storage
· Noteworthy Fixed Issues
· Updated GPE's UIBinder editor to provide support for attribute auto-completion based on getter/setters in the owner type
· Optimizations to speed up GPE launch configuration UI
· "Check for Updates", within GPE, will now detect updates to GWT and GAE SDKs
· Launching against an external URL that contains a port number now works properly in Eclipse 3.6
· Updated IE9 support
· Fixed iFrame loading issues within Internet Explorer
December 11th, 2010· New Features
· Cell Widgets
· MVP Framework (Activities and Places)
· Request Factory
· Editors
· Server-side Speed Traces
· Logging
· Safe HTML
· Integration with SpringSource developer tools
October 30th, 2010· Includes some minor bug fixes found in the release candidate.
October 21st, 2010New Features:
· Data Presentation Widgets
· MVP Framework (Activities and Places)
· RequestFactory
· Server-side Speed Traces
· Logging
· Safe HTML
December 9th, 2009New Features:
· Development Mode
· Speed Tracer
· Developer Guided Code Splitting
· Compiler Optimizations
· Draft Compile
· Declarative User Interfaces
· Layout Panels
· Bundled Resources via ClientBundle
· HtmlUnit for Testing
Bug Fixes:
· Issue 427: TextArea#getSelectedText() returns the wrong value in Internet Explorer
· Issue 633: Added File#setEnabled to enable or disable FileUpload widgets
· Issue 1574: Added Cookies#remoteCookie to programmatically remove cookies
· Issue 1585: Clicking on a Button in a Form no longer submits the forms automatically
· Issue 1633: Loading malformed cookies no longer result an an exception
· Issue 1771: Added RpcRequestBuilder to encapsulate logic needed to build and an RPC request
· Issue 3102: HandlerManager#removeHandelr has be de-deprecated by popular request
· Issue 3404: Added support for Class#getSimpleName()
· Issue 3892: Multiple GWT applications on the same page can now preview events
· Issue 3903: Host HTML pages no contain a noscript tag to warn users if JavaScript is disabled
· Issue 3936: Empty switch statement no longer causes compilation error
RichTextArea has also been enhanced:
· Issue 1211: Support for undo/redo in RichTextArea
· Issue 1433: Support for inserting arbitrary HTML into a RichTextArea
· Issue 1441: No cursor in RichTextArea until users start typing (Firefox)
· Issue 2185: Support for JustifyFull in RichTextArea
· Issue 3176: Ensure that design mode is properly set in Firefox
· Issue 3503: Consistent focus behavior across browsers
September 24th, 2009· Adds support for Mac OS X version 10.6 (Snow Leopard) by allowing hosted mode to run with a 1.6 JRE in 32-bit mode (using the -d32 flag).
· Allow hosted mode using a 1.6 JRE with the -d32 flag.
July 14th, 2009Potentially breaking changes and fixes:
· This release includes explicit support for IE8, which has some significant behavioral changes from prior versions of IE.
· These changes are great enough that the new value ie8 has been added for the user.agent deferred binding client property.
· If you have deferred binding rules (i.e. or ) or property providers that are sensitive to user.agent, you may need to update them to account for the ie8 value. For more information, see the technical notes.
Fixed Issues:
· Updated GWT libraries to support IE8.
· Native exception in Node.is()
· Incorrect firing of two click events from CheckBox and a related issue.
· Compiler java.lang.StackOverflowError if you don't use -Xss to set a stack size.
· Mouse wheel in FF3.
· GWT outputs expressions too long for WebKit.
· java.sql.Date.valueOf error.
· Added a workaround for Firefox 3.5 regression.
April 8th, 2009Fixed Issues:
· The classpath in the scripts created by junitCreator was updated to refer to /war/WEB-INF/classes rather than /bin.
October 18th, 2008· RPC requests no longer fail on the embedded Android web browser
· Leaf TreeItems now line up with their non-leaf siblings
· Removing the last child node from a TreeItem no longer creates extra margins on the left
· HTTPRequest no longer uses POST instead of GET on some IE installs because of incorrect XHR selection
· Compiler now uses a more reliable check to prevent methods with local variables from being inlined
· getAbsoluteTop()/Left() can no longer return non-integral values
· Time.valueOf() no longer fails to parse "08:00:00" or incorrectly accepts "0xC:0xB:0xA".
August 29th, 2008· History.onHistoryChanged() has been added back (it was missing from 1.5 RC2) but is now deprecated. Application startup should be handled by calling the new History.fireCurrentHistoryState().
· Fields marked final in serializable types will now generate a warning; the fact that they were not being serialized was a source of confusion. Mark such fields both final and transient to avoid the warning.
· Instance methods on overlay types cannot be accessed from JSNI. (This used to work in hosted mode, but failed at runtime in web mode.)
· The hosted mode server no longer serves hosted.html from a module's public path; instead the file is read directly from the classpath. This file is tightly coupled with the hosted mode implementation and was not meant to be user overridable.
· Collections.unmodifiableSortedSet() and Collections.unmodifiableSortedMap() are now implemented.
· The new Accessibility class enables widget authors to add ARIA support to their widgets. Many GWT widgets come with ARIA support by default.
· Improved exception stack traces in hosted mode when JSNI stack frames are present.
· Fixed the relationship between the coordinates returned by Element.getAbsoluteLeft/Top() and Event.getClientX/Y(). Document.getBodyOffsetLeft/Top() can be used to account for the difference between these two coordinate systems.
· Ctrl-Z should correctly perform an undo operation in RichTextArea on IE.
August 13th, 2008· DOM.eventGetClientX/Y() now takes into account the margin and border of the body element
· In hosted mode, all DOM.eventGetXXX() methods now assert that the requested attribute is reliable across all supported browsers. This means that attempting to retrieve an attribute for an event that does not support that attribute will now throw an assertion error instead of returning a coerced value. Most notably, the click event throws an assertion error if you attempt to get the mouse button that was clicked.
· The return value of DOM.eventGetXXX() methods are now coerced to 0 instead of -1 in web mode. In hosted mode, an assertion error will be thrown if the attribute is not defined for the given event, as described in the previous bullet.
· Opera specific code has been upgraded to work with Opera 9.5, but may not work with older versions of Opera as we only support the most recent release. Specifically, some widgets may not be able to receive focus.
· Calls to History.newItem() now trigger an onHistoryChanged() event synchronously instead of asynchronously
· Added support for the contextmenu event, which allows users to detect and override the browser's default context menu
· Improved performance of NumberFormat
· Added support for altering the number of decimals in a currency in NumberFormat
· Improved performance of Animations
· Improved the appearance of the default GWT style themes
· Improved the Showcase sample with more robust examples and more language translations
· FormPanel can now wrap an existing form and still submit it to a hidden iframe
· DOM.getAbsoluteLeft/Top() and DOM.eventGetClientX/Y() no longer log an exception to the console in Firefox 3
· Fixed a memory leak in Internet Explorer
· DOM.getAbsoluteLeft/Top() now takes into account the margin and border of the target element in Safari 3
· Fixed some bugs associated with history support
May 29th, 2008· Compiler, Hosted Mode and Linker enhancements
· JRE emulation: Enhancements to the GWT JRE emulation library
· User interface improvements in 1.5
· Remote procedure calls: GWT RPC Enhancements
· Internationalization: Improvements to the I18N library
· Miscellaneous Features & Improvements
April 21st, 2008· Support for FireFox 3.
· Fixed a rare, random crash in Windows hosted mode.
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