GWT Version 1.4 Development Plan

Release Candidate Available

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Details in the GWT 1.4 RC blogpost.

Widgets/Library

• RichTextArea (#230) - jgw, knorton
• done
• DisclosurePanel (formerly CollapsiblePanel) - knorton
• done
• Widgets in Tabs - knorton
• done
• Splitter (horizontal and vertical) - knorton and jgw
• done
• SuggestBox - ecc (#868)
• IncrementalCommand (formerly DeferredIterator)
• done
• ToggleButton,PushButton - ecc (#869)
• done
• DateTimeFormat (#751)
• done
• NumberFormat (#752)
• done

Development/Deployment

• True JS output (litmus test: mash-up-able) (#699) - scottb
• in progress
• Benchmarking subsystem integrated into JUnit - tobyr (#702)
• done
• Simplified external script inclusion (script ready-functions no longer necessary)
• done
• GWTShellServlet uses preferred HTTP headers to speed demos and educate for deployment
• done
• New JRE classes: ListIterator (TreeMap and SortedMap will not be included in 1.4 after all) - hcc
• done
• Compiler reports file/line information on internal compiler errors (ICEs) - scottb
• done
• Automatic PNG transparency support in IE for ClippedImage - bruce
• done
• RemoteServiceServlet refactoring to be pluggable - mmendez
• done
• Hosted mode checks at JSNI boundaries (#627, #736) - jat
• done

Performance

• Compiler does simple inlining (e.g. localized Constants) - scottb
• done
• Compiler does additional low-hanging-fruit dead code elimination - scottb
• done
• Compiler does peephole JS output optimizations - scottb
• done
• Optimized bootstrap, with simplified host page inclusion mechanism (i.e. <script src="module.js">)
• done
• JRE size and speed optimizations: HashMap, ArrayList, Vector, HashMap, HashSet
• done
• ImageBundle, ImageBundleGenerator, clipping on !Image (#753, #754)
• done

Fixes

• Hosted mode Linux crash (#472) - jat
• done
• Hosted mode support for multiple modules on a page (#484) - jat
• done
• Hosted mode JS use of toString on a wrapped Java object (#775, #785) - scottb
• done
• Hosted mode memory leaks (#846) - jat
• GC-correct hosted mode in Safari - jat
• done
• Hosted mode caching bug (sometimes appears due to RPC after refresh) (#711)
• Redundant image loading in IE (#282)
• Trees in ScrollPanel (?)
• HTMLTable bugs (already in code review -ecc)
• ...Other bugs during a 3-4 day GWT bugfix...