Ext GWT 3.0 Release Candidate is now available

[Edmund]

Ext GWT 3.0 Release Candidate is now available

This release candidate build is the culmination of our series of beta builds. The release candidate includes a host of features, enhancements, and bug fixes. We've made many changes to solidify this release, and many of these changes were driven by discussions with the community here in the forums. Here are a few highlights:

• A new Desktop Example showing off customization of Ext GWT 3.0 components
• Generics updates to better support covariance and contravariance
• Documentation refresh
• API naming consistency updates
• Layout performance improvements
• CellComponent redraw optimizations
• Improved chart resize logic
• And over 140 bug fixes

Read more about all of these changes in the release notes.

Upgrading to the release candidate

Manual upgrade: As before, we have a zip archive available for download.


Maven: In your POM, update your dependency to version 3.0.0-rc.

Your feedback has been invaluable to us throughout the betas, and now we're eager to hear from you as you try out this release candidate build. We welcome your continued feedback and discussion here on the Ext GWT Community Forums. Remember that the bugs forum is the fastest way to bring a problem to the attention of our engineers and is our preferred way of receiving bug reports from you.

Thanks for all your interest and involvement throughout the development of Ext GWT 3.0. We can't wait to finish up Ext GWT 3.0 so you can start using it to build the next generation of web applications.

[LoriSun]

We really should wait for you guys, anyway thanks for the efforts

[PhiLho]

The Maven dependency isn't available yet?

[darrellmeyer]

@PhiLho The release is available in Maven.

[sblommers]

Thank you!

[PhiLho]

Strange... I just replaced -beta4 with -rc (previously, we just changed -beta3 to -beta4 and it worked) but I get a "Failed to resolve artifact" message, missing "com.sencha.gxt:gxt:jar:3.0.0-rc", trying "central" (repo1.maven.org/maven2) among others.

I do see the page you link to, so I don't understand (but I have little Maven experience...).

[sblommers]

It takes some time to get to Maven central. I use nexus and added Sonatype releases to nexus but you could put it in your pom.xml as a repo for the time being:

<repository>
<id>sonatype-releases</id>
<name>Sonatype Releases</name>
<url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/releases/</url>
</repository>

[robferguson]

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.sencha.gxt -DartifactId=gxt -Dversion=3.0.0-rc -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=gxt-3.0.0-rc.jar -DgeneratePom=true