This question came to my mind when I saw (finally after couple of days waiting for my Wave account to be ready) the new Google Wave web 2.0 application which is written using GWT technology. I have to say that I'm impressed. I haven't got the chance to fully estimate functionality, but it's definitely a sexy RIA application. Will it give us the missing piece we have always looked for and finally we can say that GWT has a real father (Google)?

Hello again,

This time I want to talk about localization (a.k.a. i18n).

As Flex developers, as I assume you already know, all you have to do is create a *.properties file (say Messages.properties) and in it define keys with localized values, like:

columnHeaderName=Name

Then, in the main application mxml, you would define the resource bundles:

	<mx:Metadata>
		[ResourceBundle("Messages")]
	</mx:Metadata>

And basically you're done. All you need to do to use it, is use the ResourceManager class to access the localized value of the key.

Simple stuff, right?

Not so with GWT...

Recently, I had to create a custom component that does live filtering on data presented in a grid.

If you are reading this series, you probably know how this can be done in Flex. If you don't, a quick google search will probably point you in the right direction. Enough to say that in envolves a custom component to get the search criteria and a filter function on the grid's dataProvider ArrayCollection.

I was surprised this is relatively straight forward in GWT (using uiBinder and GXT 3.0)

Well, I have done a lot of reading this week.

I also feel like some of the dust has cleared from my Java muscles and bones.