In the world of GWT IDE support, you knew that NetBeans wouldn’t long be behind. And, of course, a beta of gwt4nb is available. From the info site, gwt4nb offers the following features:
- 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
For those familiar with the Cypal Studio (formerly Googlipse) and IntelliJ’s GWT plugin, this NetBeans plugin provides pretty much the same thing, mostly helping with the creation of xml and rpc java files.
A demo application, built with gwt4nb, is Visual Designer, a tree-style pseudo WYSIWYG GWT app layout tool. It isn’t production code, but is worth looking at as an example.
