Overhaul the RequestFactory server code. Make RequestFactory usable from non-GWT code. http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/RequestFactory_2_1_1 Move AutoBeans to a top-level package and add AutoBeanCodex. Add explicit support for Collections and Maps to AutoBeanVisitor. Add support to AutoBean and AutoBeanCodex for Map properties. Add @PropertyName annotation to decrease the size of the RF payload. http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/AutoBean Patch by: bobv Review by: rjrjr, rchandia Review at http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/1080801 git-svn-id: https://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/trunk@9189 8db76d5a-ed1c-0410-87a9-c151d255dfc7