Bruce Johnson, Engineering Manager for the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) has announced the availability of version 1.5 of GWT.
In his release announcement he says:
"GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you're counting."
The new features supported in version 1.5 include:
- Java 5 language support
- Enhanced JRE emulation classes (e.g. StringBuilder, TreeMap)
- Many performance enhancements (up to 10x in some cases)
- Better JavaScript interoperability
- New sample application demoing all the new widget features
GWT can be downloaded from the project's home page.
