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Today I published a blog post on the Genuitec blog regarding the new GWT scaffolding functionality in MyEclipse for Spring 8.6.

This week Genuitec and Skyway Software released the second milestone (M2) of MyEclipse for Spring 8.6, which includes scaffolding for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) applications.  With this new release, you can now generate full ready-to-run GWT applications from your domain model (i.e. DB tables, Java Beans, or JPA Entities).

The new GWT scaffolding option is available using the same scaffolding wizard that MyEclipse for Spring developers are already familiar with.  The scaffolding wizard is a one-stop shop for all of the MyEclipse for Spring scaffolding capabilities, which also includes Spring MVC, Spring Web Flow and Adobe Flex scaffolding.

Update 7/8/2010 - MyEclipse for Spring 8.6 now generates full ready-to-run GWT applications based on MVP and UI Binder in minutes.  Just point the scaffolding wizard at your database tables, Java beans, or JPA Entities.  You can learn more about it from the Generating Enterprise Class GWT applications for Spring post that I wrote on Genuitec blog.

As I have noted in previous posts, lately I've been exploring GWT.  In particular I've been studying the Model-View-Presenter pattern prescribed by Ray Ryan.  I've been disecting the Large scale application development and MVP tutorial and associated sample project.  I don't get to look at it everyday, but over time I'm starting to get my hands around it.  I've also been interested in how MVP and the new UIBinder feature of GWT 2.0 fit together.  In an earlier post I shared some code that implements View of the MVP sample project using UIBinder.

While digging through code is fun, I'm more of a visual kind'a guy....that's just the way I'm wired.  I really wanted an architecture diagram that summarizes the GWT Model-View-Presenter pattern.  Particularly since I can only spend a few hours here or there on GWT, I felt I needed I an architecture diagram that summarizes what I've learned by digging through the tutorial and code.  That way when I have a few more hours to spend on GWT, and I can back up to speed quickly.  I also find that I can develop faster if I have a visual representation of the archicture to refer to.  My first choice was to find something created by someone else, but I didn't find anything either on the GWT site or through a web search.  So I embarked on creating it myself.  Hopefully others will find this helpfull.  If you find any errors or ommissions, please don't hesitate to drop me a comment.  Feedback is always welcome.

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Update 7/8/2010 - MyEclipse for Spring 8.6 now generates full ready-to-run GWT applications based on MVP and UI Binder in minutes.  Just point the scaffolding wizard at your database tables, Java beans, or JPA Entities.  You can learn more about it from the Generating Enterprise Class GWT applications for Spring post that I wrote on Genuitec blog.

About a week ago I posted the following question on GWT forums.

"Does anyone have an MVP sample project (Contact) that is implemented using UIBinder?  I'm starting to get my head around MVP and UIBinder, but I'm struggling with the best way for using both.  A sample project would be really helpful."

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I've been working on some GWT stuff, but I've been publishing it on the Skyway Builder blog.  My latest endeavor has been to extend Skyway Builder to generate everything required to make Spring @Services accessible as GWT RPC services.  Here are links to the first two posts of the series:

• Skyway Builder extension for GWT – spring4gwt and GWT event buses
• Skyway Builder GWT Extension – High-level Implementation

What did we do before the Internet?  I'm definitely of the opinion that the Internet is a utility, and to me it's as important as traditional utilities, like electricity and water.  From an application developer's point of view, I can't imagine not having the internet.  It's an indispensible tool for solving problems, researching and learning.

In my quest to to learn GWT, I found a series of videos from Voices That Matter - Google Web Toolkit Conference.  The conference was in late 2007, which under normal circumstances might mean that the content is WAY out-dated.  I haven't watched them all in full, but I've seen enough to know that the content is still mostly relevant.

The full series is available from this YouTube playlist.  If anyone knows of any other similar resources, please let me know.