Getting closer, still not ready for review. I learned how to pull in both the binary and the source for hibernate validator. Now getting the app's "An error occurred" dialog when sending, nothing in the console.
At launch still seeing the ClassNotFound exception below. Will debug in the morning, but if anyone has clue to share in the meantime I'll be obliged. 00:00:30.295 [SPAM] Resolving org.hibernate.validator.constraints.ScriptAssert 00:00:30.296 [SPAM] Found type 'org.hibernate.validator.constraints.ScriptAssert' 00:00:30.296 [ERROR] Annotation error: cannot resolve org.hibernate.validator.constraints.impl.ScriptAssertValidator <pre>java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.hibernate.validator.constraints.impl.ScriptAssertValidator at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.resolveAnnotationValue(TypeOracleMediator.java:750) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.resolveAnnotationValue(TypeOracleMediator.java:689) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.createAnnotation(TypeOracleMediator.java:498) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.resolveAnnotation(TypeOracleMediator.java:648) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.resolveAnnotations(TypeOracleMediator.java:663) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.resolveClass(TypeOracleMediator.java:809) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediator.addNewTypes(TypeOracleMediator.java:439) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.TypeOracleMediatorFromSource.addNewUnits(TypeOracleMediatorFromSource.java:52) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationState.assimilateUnits(CompilationState.java:164) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationState.<init>(CompilationState.java:82) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.doBuildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:450) at com.google.gwt.dev.javac.CompilationStateBuilder.buildFrom(CompilationStateBuilder.java:370) at com.google.gwt.dev.cfg.ModuleDef.getCompilationState(ModuleDef.java:360) at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase$UiBrowserWidgetHostImpl.createModuleSpaceHost(DevModeBase.java:110) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.OophmSessionHandler.loadModule(OophmSessionHandler.java:197) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.processConnection(BrowserChannelServer.java:525) at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.BrowserChannelServer.run(BrowserChannelServer.java:363) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)</pre> 00:00:30.297 [ERROR] Annotation error: expected class java.lang.Class, got null http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/1537805/ -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors