Google Web Toolkit 1.4RC Released
Today just released GWT 1.4RC with more than 150 bugfixes, in addition to many new features and improvements. JavaScript produced with GWT 1.4 is about 10-20% smaller, but the most interesting that it's becoming much more faster. Most important change in GWT 1.4 is ImageBundle, which make it easy to collapse dozens of images into a single permanently-cacheable image file, another new feature that will boost GWT performance.
For deployment enhancements, GWT RPC is no longer tied to exclusively to servlets, and we saw already Pibb which uses Python for server-side scripts. Now you can run GWT compiler with -xs option, if you need a cross-site support in your JavaScript loading module, pretty simple but always use it at your own risk. Finally lots of changes in GWT widgets including RichTextArea, SuggestBox, Splitters, and more. GWT 1.4 is going to be hot ! More changes details here. Via GWT blog.
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