In this episode Gordon and Jeff talk about:

Bring The Best of YUI 4 To Your GWT App

• Wrap most useful parts of YUI 3 with Javascript Overlay objects that you can use in GWT.
• Gallery Site

Test GWT RPC Calls Synchronously with SyncProxy

• Shows how to test a series of RPC calls in succession.
• Uses a separate Eclipse project to call into the services

Discussion about switching from Eclipse to IntelliJ for GWT Development

• IntelliJ costs more
• IntelliJ seems to offer much better performance
• IntelliJ seems to offer better JavaScript support

New Formula for GWT using OS X homebrew package manager

• Makes it easier to install GWT sdk on Macs.
• Home brew is Git and Ruby
• Formulas are ruby scripts
• Easy package management

New Validation section in the Developers Guide for 2.5

• JSR-303 Bean Validation – using constraint annotations
• New for GWT 2.5
• Capable of creating validators for client side.

Native Date/Time pickers in Chrome

• Y-Combinator discussion on native Date/Time pickers
• Native versus add-on/html5/css ?
• Styling native widgets is a concern

The Future of GWT Report 2012

• The Steering Committee compiled the responses to their survey on the future of GWT.
• The report is a compilation of the 1300+ responses.

Paper based prototyping systems

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4789281
• Not GWT, but looks interesting …

This Episode’s Power Tool

Raphael4gwt

• Brings the SVG capabilities of  Raphaël to your GWT project.
• It is a lightweight java API for doing vector graphics drawing.
• Uses GWT Overlay types for implementing a zero overhead API to Raphael.
• Shapes are not widget based making it lightweight.
• Raphael4gwt Gallery