StarRating GWT widget

I recently experimented with Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and created a widget in the process. It’s a simple rating control as seen on many websites where users can submit a rating by clicking on a number of stars.

The control currently features:

• a custom number of stars in one row (horizontal)


• a mouse hover effect


• provides an RPC service interface to store and retrieve rating data


• client side usage without a service is possible



• ui customization via CSS is possible

Some features that are missing:

• client side usage needs a listener when the rating has changed.


• the progress indicator is not customizable (image url in the java source).


• it’s not as elegant or efficient as e.g. this CSS based star rating.



• no keyboard support like the rate it widget in the gwt components library.

Nevertheless I believe this is pretty usable and maybe I’ll submit the widget to the GWT Widget Library Project if it is welcome. Anyway, feel free to use it but I won’t promise any further support - we’ll see. Here is the sourcecode of the StarRating widget.