Well, GWT 2.0 RC1 (yes!) is out. I was going to wait for a while with some of my new projects until switching them over to GWT 2.0, but given the pace of the GWT 2.0 project, I may just switch them over now rather than going through a painful migration.

I’m especially eager to use UiBinder to do declarative UI creation. Just specify how your interface should look in XML:

and write some Java to instantiate it:

public class UserDashboard extends Composite {
  interface MyUiBinder extends UiBinder;
  private static final MyUiBinder uiBinder = GWT.create(MyUiBinder.class);

  private final String[] teamNames;

  public UserDashboard(String... teamNames) {
    this.teamNames = teamNames;
    initWidget(uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this));
  }

  /** Used by MyUiBinder to instantiate CricketScores */
  @UiFactory CricketScores makeCricketScores() { // method name is insignificant
    return new CricketScores(teamNames);
  }
}

Obviously there’s a little more to it than this. I’ll try to post a little howto over the weekend. There’s already a few examples out there, but when it comes to a new feature like this, the more explanations, the better.

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