Update on the broken samples in the gwt distribution: The issue is some kind of interaction between Java 8 and ant - when a URL is read from the classloader for a directory within a jar, it had a trailing slash. When running the GWT webappcreator from command line, this didn't happen, when running within ant in Java 7 this didn't happen.
The patch is up as https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/c/gwt/+/22320. An alternative fix could be to normalize those paths inside the WebAppCreator and remove trailing slashes - we experimented with that at first, but once we discovered that it was ant's classloader which was causing this and _not_ just Java 8, it made more sense to fork the task. This also brings the WebAppCreator task in line with all other <java> tasks in the ant build. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT Contributors" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit-contributors+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-web-toolkit-contributors/2aa37e19-95ec-406d-aa96-cf0f1233cb36%40googlegroups.com.
