It's great to see that there's a road map for migrating those widgets to the trunk! We can use most of those features now (in particular: Validation, Slider, ProgressBar, Graphics, and Locale selection).
Can we still expect to see a 2.0-compatible version of the current gwt- incubator.jar? On Jan 12, 10:05 am, John LaBanca <jlaba...@google.com> wrote: > Incubator Users - > > The Google Web Toolkit Incubator project began as a proving grounds for new > widgets to be vetted before joining the ranks of the GWT trunk. We've seen > some success stories over the last year with EventHandlers, ClientBundle, > and DatePicker, but for many of the widgets and libraries, Incubator has > become an elephant graveyard. > > In order to address this issue, we will start graduating some of the > libraries to GWT trunk, move some into separate projects, and discontinue > development on others. Ultimately, we will wind down the incubator project > completely. > > The schedule below shows the fate of each subproject in incubator. It's a > tentative schedule, meaning that it could change as priorities shift. > > GWT 2.1 > > - *PagingScrollTable and FastTree* > We are working on a new set of data backed widgets for GWT 2.1 that will > include APIs for trees and tables. We will build upon the lessons learned > with these incubator widgets, but the API for the new data backed widgets > will evolve significantly from the current APIs. When the data backed > widgets are added to GWT trunk, we will stop development on > the PagingScrollTable and FastTree. > > - *Locale Selection* > Selecting the locale on the server requires one less round trip to the > server on startup and is needed for effective use of > runtime locales selection. This library will be included in GWT 2.1. > > GWT 2.2 > > - *CollapsiblePanel* > This widget will probably become a subclass of DockingLayoutPanel, > similar to SplitLayoutPanel. > > - *SliderBar and ProgressBar* > Both of these widgets currently require the use of a global timer, which > has performance implications. If we can implement these without a resize > timer, we will include them in GWT 2.2. If we cannot, we will discontinue > development on them. > > - *Logging* > The logging API may make it into GWT 2.1 if time permits. > > - *Form Validation* > We will take a closer look at the form validation API in GWT 2.2.. > > Separate Project: > > - *SoundResource* > SoundResource is a promising API for including sound in an application, > but it makes sense to wait for HTML 5 features to become widely adopted > before including it. We would like to move SoundResource into the > gwt-voices > project:http://code.google.com/p/gwt-voices/. > > - *Graphics* > The graphics library provides a single, platform independent API that > works on top of Canvas and VML. The library is not ready for GWT trunk, but > this project is worth pursuing. > > - *HtmlDecorators* > We will continue to work on this project to arbitrarily add decorations > to widgets. > > As always, please feel free to reply with comments or suggestions. > > Thanks, > John LaBanca > on behalf of the GWT team
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