GWT plugins for various IDEs

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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 17:35

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Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that allows web developers to create Ajax applications in Java. GWT comes with many widgets. In this article we shall see the list of useful IDE Plugins available for GWT.

GWT4NB
A Netbeans Plugin for developing
GWT applications

Cypal Studio
A set of Eclipse plugins for making
GWT development easier

gwtDeveloper
A WYSIWYG tool to design your GWT applications

IntelliJ IDEA Studio Plugin
A plugin for IntelliJ IDEA that simplifies
development of Web applications using GWT
in cross-platform Swing applications

GWT Tooling
A set of Eclipse plug-ins to ease the development of GWT applications with Eclipse.

Eclipse GWT Plugin
Eclipse plugin to support GWT development

First lets check out the plugins that can make GWT development easier with IDE's.

GWT4NB

License: CDDL/GPL

Development: Active

Size: 93Kb

It is a plugin for Netbeans that aims to enable developers to take advantage of both: the superior support for creating Web Applications built into the NetBeans IDE and the power of GWT (Google Web Toolkit).

Provided functionality includes:

Using GWT with new or existing Web Projects
Deployment, running and debugging GWT-enabled Web Apps using arbitrary Application Server
Assistance to deal with some code editing nuances such as creating RPC services efficiently

Cypal Studio for Eclipse

License: Apache 2.0

Development: In Active

Size: 900Kb

Cypal Studio for GWT is a set of Eclipse plugins for making GWT development easier. It currently helps you in:

Creating a module
Creating a remote service
Maintaining the Async file
Runing your app in hosted mode
Compiling your app to Java Script
Deploying to an external server
Exporting as WAR operation

gwtDeveloper for JDeveloper

License: ??

Development: Active

Size: 1.3Mb

gwtDeveloper is a WYSIWYG tool to design your GWT applications. It is a extension for JDeveloper. It supports the following features:

Visually design your panels, composites, menus and other widget types
View, change your widget's properties using Property Inspector
Add event handlers to your widgets

IntelliJ IDEA Studio Plugin

License: Commercial

Development: Active

Size: Bundled with IntelliJ (6.0)

It is a plugin for IntelliJ IDEA simplifies development of Web applications using Google Web Toolkit. It supports the following features:

actions to create different elements of GWT application
GWT specific inspections and quick fixes
integration with GWT compiler
specific run configuration for starting and debugging GWT applications from IntelliJ IDEA
basic refactorings
"Go To Declaration" action and completion for references from Java code to html and CSS and for references to inherited modules from GWT module file
GWT native methods support: advanced coding assistance including syntax highlighting, code completion, etc. for editing JavaScript embedded into native GWT methods (see description of IntelliJ IDEA JavaScript editor)
integration with GWT internationalization (i18n) support (will be available in IDEA 6.0.2)

GWT Tooling

License: Mozilla Public License 1.1

Development: Still in Development, No release yet

Size: 900Kb

A set of Eclipse plug-ins to ease the development of Google Webtoolkit (GWT) applications with Eclipse. Released under the EPL. GWT Tooling supports Eclipse Dynamic Web projects for traditional JavaEE development as well as Java and Plug-in projects for Server-Side Eclipse development.