We are pleased to announce a preview version of our plugin for Grails developers. Grails includes an ORM layer (GORM) built on top of Hibernate and the principal feature of this plugin is to provide a seamless integration with it.  The plugin also assists with creating UI elements and providing SmartClient-enhanced scaffolding. This articles serves as a starting point for...

Like any web application, SmartClient and Smart GWT applications can be made offline  capable using an HTML5 manifest file to describe all the static resources required by the application.  If you’re not familiar with creating an HTML manifest file, you can learn more about it by reading through this tutorial: http://www.sitepoint.com/offline-web-application-tutorial/ Once you’ve got a manifest for static resources, the...

Now available: the Smart GWT QuickStart Guide. This is the first piece of documentation to read when learning about Smart GWT.  It is structured as a set of brief introductions to the major features of Smart GWT, with hands-on code samples you can run and experiment with, and links to deeper documentation to learn more. This guide also introduces a...

If you’ve purchased a license, you can now download licensed nightly builds.  Just log in to SmartClient.com, then go here to download: http://www.smartclient.com/builds If you also have support, you can get support for nightly builds, but the process is slightly different – see the overview at the above URL.

Of course, you’d probably want to use the mobile-specific version.  But it’s nice to know the full version is there too. The stacked area chart is dynamically generated inside mobile Safari using HTML5, based on a cube dataset being loaded on demand from the server. The same charting component works for desktop browsers.  In IE, it uses VML for rendering...