drag and drop environment to start developing in gwt

Question

is there any drag and drop environment to work with GWT widgets. or any user friendly IDE or plugin on IDE's i remember using some thing like MyEclips for developing Hibernate was better then working with .xml files.

Answer 1

The Eclipse-based WindowBuilder Pro supports GWT and is now free, courtesy of Google.

Answer 2

I tried GWT Designer, http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/tools/gwtdesigner/index.html, but I think for now I'll stick to code the guis myself by hand.

The main reasons are:

• Sometimes, it takes a little while (longer than I can wait) to load the design mode.
• Sometimes it breaks after you modify code underneath.
• Sometimes, does not do what you expect it to do.

I would suggest you giving it a try and see if it works out for your needs.

In my opinion, the experience using it has been frustrating than encouraging.