How-To: Eclipse Ganymede 3.4.1 with SVN and GWT support

After long-way troubled support of Subversion in Eclipse Ganymede (still no built-in support…), this how-to attempts to install the Subversive plug-in on SR1 (3.4.1) release. Support for GWT is also added with the Cypal Studio for GWT. Tested on Ubuntu 8.04.1 with the versions referred.

Download Ganymede 3.4.1 for Java EE from here. The file for [...]

Remote Procedure Calls in GWT

From google
GWT RPC makes it easy for the client and server to pass Java objects back and forth over HTTP.
When used properly, RPCs give you the opportunity to move all of your UI logic to the client, resulting in greatly improved performance, reduced bandwidth, reduced web server load, and a pleasantly fluid [...]

Vortex: An offline abstraction on top of Google Gears

from ajaxian.com

Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs

Off-line web applications are a big deal for many companies/projects such as Adobe/AIR, Mozilla/Prism, Google/Google Gears and possibly Microsoft/Silverlight.
From gearsblog.blogspot.com:
Gears for mobile devices is initially available for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
An interesting point is that they “plan to keep the Gears API consistent across all platforms”.
So Steve Jobs new something and [...]

Info for GWT

New (and not so new) technologies are taking the world of web application development by storm. Flex, Ajax (super-DHTML baptised in a fancy way), GWT etc.
Fast Definition
Google Web Toolkit is a Java framework that allows developers to build complex AJAX enabled web applications using Java code. With GWT, the web developer writes the user interface [...]