For several months now, we’ve been hard at work adding the features and functionality that was first demoed at this year’s Google I/O. The goal of this release has been to make it easy to build business oriented web apps that can take full advantage of the cloud -- zero deployment, instant scaling, cost savings, and portability that allows you to run your app in a variety of cloud environments, such as Google’s hosted service, App Engine, and VMware’s on-premise solution, vFabric. A few weeks ago we mentioned that we were close to wrapping up this project, and today we’re happy to announce the general availability of these tools.
Download the Google Plugin for Eclipse or SpringSource Tool Suite to get started now!
Google Web Toolkit SDK
If you’re looking to start building apps using the Spring Roo and SpringSource Tool Suite integration, the quickest way to start is by downloading SpringSource Tool Suite and installing the Google Plugin for Eclipse from the main Dashboard component.
Once downloaded, simply start up Roo’s command line interpreter, and run the “script expenses.roo” command.
This will run a series of Roo commands that produce the following starter web app:
Now that we’ve created our app and launched it from the command line, we can import it into STS to start customizing it. To do this switch back to STS and click the menu item File->Import, and then select “Existing Maven Projects”.
Once imported you can now run your app directly from STS by right clicking on the project and selecting the “Run As->Web Application”
From there you can start customizing it using our GWT Developer Guides and Roo documentation to help you along the way.
For a complete “Getting Started” guide, be sure to checkout Getting Started with GWT, Spring Roo, and SpringSource Tool Suite.
As you may be able to tell by the list of available product updates, this release has been the culmination of work of several teams. Thanks to the VMware and Spring engineers (Ben Alex, Christian Dupuis, and teams) for working with us to create a seamless and integrated developer experience. And to the developers that have been riding tip of trunk for the past few milestones, submitting questions, issues, and patches, thanks. It wouldn’t be a success without you.
Want to get started? Please download the Google Plugin for Eclipse now! You can jump right in with the Getting Started with GWT 2.1. docs. GWT 2.1 is also available in Maven Central as version 2.1.0.
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