diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs b/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
index 0b80e3b..f9fe345 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#Tue Dec 18 15:16:06 CET 2012
 eclipse.preferences.version=1
 encoding//src/main/java=UTF-8
+encoding//src/test/java=UTF-8
 encoding/<project>=UTF-8
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index dabc06b..dfa433d 100644
--- a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -2,6 +2,5 @@
 <project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
     <wb-module deploy-name="gcube-widgets">
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
-        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/test/java"/>
     </wb-module>
 </project-modules>
diff --git a/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..04cad8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.validation.prefs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+disabled=06target
+eclipse.preferences.version=1
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 633e9b6..2c8d969 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 	<groupId>org.gcube.portlets.user</groupId>
 	<artifactId>gcube-widgets</artifactId>
-	<version>1.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	<version>1.6.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
 	<name>gCube Widgets Library</name>
 	<description>
 		gCube Widgets Library News Widget is a GWT Widget that can be used to uniform the Look and Feel for gCube Portlets using plain GWT.It also provides some out of the box widget to use.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 	</scm>
 	<properties>
 		<!-- Convenience property to set the GWT version -->
-		<gwtVersion>2.4.0</gwtVersion>
+		<gwtVersion>2.5.1</gwtVersion>
 		<distroDirectory>distro</distroDirectory>
 		<!-- GWT needs at least java 1.6 -->
 		<maven.compiler.source>1.6</maven.compiler.source>
@@ -136,36 +136,16 @@
 			<plugin>
 				<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
 				<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
-				<!-- TODO: Update version to 2.5.0 once gwt-maven-plugin 2.5.0 final 
-					is released (post-GWT 2.5.0) -->
-				<version>2.4.0</version>
-				<dependencies>
-					<dependency>
-						<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
-						<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
-						<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
-					</dependency>
-					<dependency>
-						<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
-						<artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
-						<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
-					</dependency>
-				</dependencies>
-				<!-- JS is only needed in the package phase, this speeds up testing -->
+				<version>${gwtVersion}</version>
 				<executions>
 					<execution>
-						<phase>prepare-package</phase>
 						<goals>
-							<goal>resources</goal>
 							<goal>compile</goal>
+							<!-- <goal>test</goal> -->
 						</goals>
 					</execution>
 				</executions>
-
-				<!-- Plugin configuration. There are many available options, see gwt-maven-plugin 
-					documentation at codehaus.org -->
-				<configuration>
-
+				<configuration>				
 				</configuration>
 			</plugin>
 		</plugins>