Sanjiv Jivan has released Smart GWT 2.0, a big release for the project.
The core updates are:
GWT 2.0 support
Smart GWT supports GWT 2.0 and continues to remain compatible with GWT 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7. This release is a drop-in upgrade for users of earlier versions of Smart GWT. The API’s of Smart GWT have been very [...]

Ben and I are at Google Campfire One with a Who’s Who from the Web developer space. When I first met the GWT team they were talking about revolutionary new Web tools that they wanted to create, and I have a feeling that they will be talking about what they have come up with.
David Glazer [...]

Sorry about the cheesy title, I couldn’t resist. In one of those moods I guess. Chris Lowe has posted a detailed example of a new-age GWT application that uses lots of cool tech based on Ray Ryans talk on

John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts.

John told us:

Canvas-rendering corrects GChart’s most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice).
Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]

With the release of IT Mill Toolkit 5.3.0, the server-side RIA framework is now ready for production. I announced the initial release of 5.0 back in December of 2007. Since that time, IT Mill 5 has gone through several revisions and the release of GWT 1.5 (which means you can use Java 5 now on [...]

What would a fun Ajax interface to piano composition look like? Jason Freeman, a prof in the music department of the Georgia Institute of Technology has created an interface using GWT called Piano Etudes.
His project lets users create and share their own versions of short piano pieces (and print them out as musical scores for [...]

Ray Cromwell has the ability to do amazing things in the browser. We have often linked to his work on Chronoscope and more, and this time he has a

SendMeHome lets you to assign a unique code, called a SendMeHome ID, to any physical item. We are launching our newest feature, Stories, which connects a group of people through an item as it travels the globe. Social networks such as Facebook mainly involve users communicating with their ‘friends’, SendMeHome is unique because it uses [...]

You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0.
It is a tour de force of not only a huge widget library, but he explains how it is much more:

So what’s [...]

Rodrigo Reyes has announced a new project called AbstractCanvas, a GWT project that sits on top of HTML Canvas and Java2D.
The same code can thus run in the browser, or on the server.
You can then write code such as:
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JAVA:

 VerticalPanel vPanel = new VerticalPanel();

 CanvasPanelExt canvas1 = new CanvasPanelExt(300,150);

 canvas1.setFillStyle(Color.WHITE);

 canvas1.setGlobalAlpha(1.0);

 canvas1.fillRect(0, 0, canvas1.getCoordWidth(), canvas1.getCoordHeight());

 canvas1.addCanvasPainter(new [...]