Quickly:

For a simple project why not, but as soon as you have multiple project
(store / business / dao / webapp ) or if you have some dependencies
maven dependencies management is a real plus.

WTP integration

As it also provide versioning / deployment for your artifact.

But this can be quite hard to make all work together ... (eclipse plugins ...).

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 4:25 PM, alex.d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Imho, maven is overdesigned if you don't have junit tests and other
> stuff. Ant is more than enough for just creating a war file(i do it
> with one button-click in eclipse). The only manual step is to copy it
> to your webapps-folder on the server ;-)
>
> On 27 Nov., 14:02, "olivier nouguier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>> It does all ;)
>> From GWT compilation, junit coverage, packaging  ... very easily once
>> you've made the effort .
>> But I agree that it's quite complex.
>>
>> As an example, you can look athttp://code.google.com/p/net-orcades-spring/
>> It's maven driven, and quite functional, but It's my very personal
>> opinion (about my work :)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Lonifasiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > What does Maven better than Ant? I've heard Maven is quite large and
>> > complex...
>>
>> > On 27 nov, 11:39, "olivier nouguier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> > wrote:
>> >> IMHO you should look at maven for doing this "hellish job"
>>
>> >> On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:19 AM, Lonifasiko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> > Hi,
>>
>> >> > We're also evaluating the possibility of using an architecture
>> >> > composed by GWT + Servlets + MySQL. I thought it was going to exist
>> >> > another option to communicate GWT more directly with MySQL, but seems
>> >> > like a combination of GWT-RPC and servlets is one of the best ways to
>> >> > achieve this interaction with DB.
>>
>> >> > In our test project, instead of Tomcat, we're using JBoss to deploy
>> >> > all the application, both client side code and server-side code,
>> >> > packaged into a unique .war file. At the moment must admit we're also
>> >> > copying files and generating the .war package each time manually, but
>> >> > I've also decided, based on other comments in the group, to use an ANT
>> >> > script to automatize this hellish task, sure it saves me very much
>> >> > time and problems.
>>
>> >> > By the way, do you see any advantages/disadvantages of using JBoss AS
>> >> > to host the whole application? Why did you choose for example Tomcat?
>>
>> >> > Thanks and regards.
>>
>> >> > Miguel
>> >> > Blog:http://lonifasiko.blogspot.com
>>
>> >> > On 27 nov, 02:25, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> For automating the deployment (instead of manually copying) ant is the
>> >> >> only way to go.  I've heard stories that Maven is even easier, but we
>> >> >> haven't jumped onto that band wagon (yet).  When we build with no
>> >> >> server, we have an ant build file that does all that, and then deploys
>> >> >> to our external server.  We do it old school and jump out to the file
>> >> >> system and run via command line, but I've done from inside Eclipse as
>> >> >> well.
>>
>> >> >> On Nov 26, 5:39 pm, DanielC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >> >> > Hi guys,
>>
>> >> >> > I'm developing a project with GWT + Servlets + MySQL. At this point,
>> >> >> > I've got the project setup using the "-noserver" flag and I have
>> >> >> > Connector/J configured on an external Tomcat 6 server so that my
>> >> >> > servlets can access the DB. Communication to/from server is through
>> >> >> > GWT-RPC .
>>
>> >> >> > My Problem: This is a bit of a pain b/c anytime I make a change to 
>> >> >> > the
>> >> >> > servlet code (which resides in the same Eclipse project as my GWT
>> >> >> > code...and I'd prefer to keep it this way), I have to copy the 
>> >> >> > *.class
>> >> >> > file (for the servlet) over to the 
>> >> >> > CATALINA_HOME/webapps/myproject/WEB-
>> >> >> > INF/classes/blahblahblah folder.
>>
>> >> >> > This seems extremely manual and I'm hopeful that there's a better way
>> >> >> > to do it. What is the recommended way of doing this type of
>> >> >> > development? Ideally, I'd it would just pickup the changes to both 
>> >> >> > the
>> >> >> > client and server code as it used to when I was working in hosted
>> >> >> > mode. Unfortunately, I couldn't figure out how to get MySQL and
>> >> >> > Connector/J setup in the integrated Tomcat, so I went with the "-
>> >> >> > noserver" option and configured it with an external instance of 
>> >> >> > Tomcat
>> >> >> > instead. This manual copying crap is starting to get super annoying,
>> >> >> > so I'm reaching out for help.
>>
>> >> >> > What's the best practices for this?
>>
>> >> --
>> >> Si l'ignorance peut servir de consolation, elle n'en est pas moins 
>> >> illusoire.
>>
>> > --
>> > Miguel
>> > Blog:http://lonifasiko.blogspot.com
>>
>> --
>> Si l'ignorance peut servir de consolation, elle n'en est pas moins illusoire.
> >
>



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Si l'ignorance peut servir de consolation, elle n'en est pas moins illusoire.

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