14 DAY TRIAL // Google owns a huge number of solutions so imagine that creating new interesting projects is sometimes more difficult than updating the existing ones. That's why the search giant designed multiple products to allow Google customers to develop their own ideas and collaborate with the company for new solutions. Google Web Toolkit is just one of these tools, representing a Java software development framework that helps you write AJAX programs with ease. For example, both Google Maps and Gmail are developed using this programming language, being two of the most popular services ever created by the company.
Since the release of the product, Google Web Toolkit was available as a beta several times, Google's employees testing new features to be included in the service. Today, the search giant announced the final version of the application, mentioning that the beta edition of Google Web Toolkit was quite a success.
"As we had hoped, GWT 1.3 RC 2 has proved stable and is ready to graduate today, making build 1.3.3 the official GWT 1.3 distribution. If you've been waiting to upgrade to 1.3, it's ready when you are. In case you missed the news, GWT 1.3 is the first fully open source version of GWT. Our open source charter, "Making GWT Better," explained that GWT development would take place in the open, and that we'd even publish our engineering meeting notes. We're happy to report that it's working out really well. We've had many fruitful discussions on the contributors forum, and we've already received and accepted some patches that will make it into the next version of GWT," Bruce Johnson, Tech Lead, sustained in a blog post published on the official page.
The latest version of Google Web Toolkit was also tested by Softpedia and is available as a free download on this page.