Category Archives: Java

Wicket first contact

While working on an AJAX web application a couple of weeks ago, a co-worker asked me what I know about Wicket. Not much at that time. I knew it was some kind of component based web framework, but only in the sense like everybody knows that Porsche is a German car brand.
During the recent holidays [...]

Why I upgraded to GWT 1.4.61

The previous version GWT 1.4.60 came out on August 27th, 2007. A couple of days later I had upgraded all my applications, the expression calculator demo too. None of the applications suffered from a strange bug except the demo. It appeared only when Microsoft’s Internet Explorer was used. A message box was displayed that told [...]

A small GWT application

I had some time today, so I built a little AJAX application for this blog. It’s an expression calculator. The world really doesn’t need another one, but it was the easiest thing that includes ANTLR for building a lexer/parser/AST and the Google Web Toolkit for building the client. Why? Because it’s fun …

All GWT components now Open Source

The Google Web Toolkit team has announced Google Web Toolkit Version 1.3 Release Candidate on the Google Web Toolkit Blog and the Official Google Blog. There have been no code changes since GWT Version 1.2, but all of the source code for GWT has been released under the Apache 2.0 license. This means that the [...]

New GWT Release 1.2.22

The Google Web Toolkit has a new stable release. You can read all about it here. It will be used for the new synformation web site, too.
I’ve started to use GWT since version 1.0 came out (August 25, 2006). It was easy to use and since I’m not very good at JavaScript programming, leave alone [...]