isElementPresent in selenium 2.0

Question

Hello all I am using webdriver so if I want to use selenium;s rc function isElementPresent I have to emulate selenium rc so I do something like this:

import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverBackedSelenium;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class new {
 private static void one_sec() {
  Thread.sleep(4000);
 }
 public static void main(String[] args) {    
  WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
  driver.get(something1);
  Selenium selenium = new WebDriverBackedSelenium(driver, something1); 
  selenium.click("//html...");
  one_sec();
  System.out.println(selenium.isElementPresent("text"));
  WebDriver driverInstance = ((WebDriverBackedSelenium) selenium).getWrappedDriver();
  ...
  }

and I always get false as result of isElementPresent and of course element "text" is on the web (which is using GWT).

Answer 1

I really like Rostislav Matl's alternative Moving to Selenium 2 on WebDriver, Part No.1:

driver.findElements(By.className("someclass")).size() > 0;

Javadoc: org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver.findElements(org.openqa.selenium.By by)