Greetings,
Around Twelve months in the making and GWT-OpenLayers 0.5 has been released, a BIG THANK YOU to everyone who contributed. I’ve posted this across a few mailing lists that might find this interesting blend of technologies applicable to their needs, these are primarily the GeoServer, GWT, GWT-Maven and OpenLayers.
Summary:
- Substantial increase in the number of OpenLayers features exposed.
- Many bug fixes and improvements.
- Maven support, 0.5 has been released to maven’s central repo (http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/gwtopenmaps/openlayers/gwt-openlayers/)
- Increased documentation (http://gwt-openlayers.sourceforge.net/ including javadocs http://gwt-openlayers.sourceforge.net/maven-site-latest/gwt-openlayers-client/apidocs/index.html)
- The project configuration is now entirely driven from maven (gwt-maven).
Some Big Thank You’s for the people behind…
…Sonatype (http://www.sonatype.com/) for their support and fantastic services/infrastructure. I can’t recommend these guys enough - talk about bringing large scale disciplined engineering to small scale projects 
Well done.
…OpenLayers (http://openlayers.org/) for creating such a fantastic library that we were able to wrap in GWT.
…GWT-Maven (http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/), great plugin.
…and of course those behind GWT development!
For more information, please take a look at the latest documentation http://gwt-openlayers.sourceforge.net/