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 [email protected]. 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.
