IT Mill Toolkit Enhancements

Changes between Toolkit 4 and Toolkit 5.

General

  • Google Web Toolkit integration: Create new or customize existing components using plain Java.
  • New default theme: Enhanced look and feel of existing applications.

Client-side Enhancements

  • API enhancements
  • Most theming actions are now easier to do through CSS changes

New layouting API

  • Spacing between components
  • Alignments configuring
  • Margins configuring
  • Layout size configuring

Server-side enhancements

  • Multiple different stateful views to same application
  • Enhanced file uploading and full streaming/monitoring support

Performance enhancements

  • Easier client-side optimizations through GWT
  • Initial launch of application has lower bandwidth requirements (100kb)
  • File uploading uses less memory resources
  • Client-side component caching

New Components

  • ExpandLayout
  • SplitPanel
  • Slider
  • Notification
  • RichTextEditor
  • EntryCalendar