GWT Designer GUI Builder

GWT Designer is now offered as a free download by Google. Watch the Google Web Toolkit blog at http://googlewebtoolkit.blogspot.com/ for more information.

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GWT Designer is a powerful and easy to use bi-directional GUI creator that supports the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). With GWT Designer, you can use the visual designer and Java code will be generated for you. You can easily add controls using drag-and-drop, add event handlers to your controls, change various properties of controls using a property editor and much more. You have complete freedom to change and refactor its generated code and see your changes immediately reflected in the visual designer. GWT Designer's powerful parser can also reverse engineer code created by hand.

Generated code doesn't require any additional custom libraries to compile and run beyond GWT itself: all of the generated code can be used without having GWT Designer installed. GWT Designer can read and write almost any format. It also supports free form code editing (make changes anywhere, not just in special areas) and most user refactorings (you can move, rename and subdivide methods without a problem).

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FEATURES
Highlights of GWT Designer functionality are detailed below:

• True Bi-directional (Round-Trip) Code Generation
  Directly generates Java code which can be changed in the graphical editor or directly in source. All changes made directly to the source code will be reflected in the graphical designer

• True WYSIWYG
  Design view shows real GWT/HTML controls (not fake mockups) so all properties are reflected graphically

• CSS Support
  GWT Designer can apply CSS to the design view, so you can see an exact rendering of how your screen will look in the browser. Edit CSS files using CSS Editor and edit CSS properties from within graphical designer

• Extremely Fast
  GWT Designer opens a design in a couple seconds - several times faster than launching the GWT application itself (mostly due to our *proprietary* technique of using ASM for fast bytecode modification). All subsequent edit actions update the Design view in just 300-400 milliseconds

• Rich Editing Experience
  Support for all panel types with convenient and appropriate layout edit policies. AbsolutePanels provide Matisse-like widget snapping and alignment. Graphically layout Grids, FlexTables and TabPanels.

• Widget Library Support
  Comprehensive support for the Smart GWT, Ext-GWT (GXT) and GWT-Ext widget libraries.

• Wizards & Builders
  Wizards for creating new PopupPanels, DialogBoxes and Composites. Wizards for creating new GWT projects and RemoteServices. A Builder for the automatic creation of the "async" parts of a service is also included

• GWT Application Launching
  GWT Application launch configuration including launch shortcut for fast launching using popup menu or hot key in editor

• Intelligent Refactoring
  Renaming or moving a module class or remote service updates the the module XML file and renames any associated *Async and *Impl classes

• Internationalization (i18n)
  Extract hard coded strings to resource bundles and automatically manage multiple locales

• Easy Build & Deployment
  One-click deployment tool automatically creates a project WAR file and uploads it to your server. An ANT script is generated for an easy, repeatable build process

AWARDS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Best Commercial Eclipse Developer Tool! The Eclipse Foundation's annual Community Awards were announced at EclipseCon 2009. WindowBuilder (which includes GWT Designer) was one of only three commercial products honored.

"When somebody asks me the best way to start with GWT, I generally answer: Install GWT Designer. It is the fastest way to discover GWT."--- Didier Girard, http://www.ongwt.com/