Because not everyone uses Ant. Some use maven to build the war, it's not a standard practice to rename during the compile/deploy process and therefore maven it not going to do this.
-Dave On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:11 PM, gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Because not everyone wants to organize their web sites the same way or > wants to call their GWT module bootstrap file index.html? As Addy > says, what's the problem with Ant? > > On Jan 4, 7:55 pm, "David Hoffer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > In this case why not just name it statically index.html? Why wait? > > > > -Dave > > > > 2009/1/4 Addy <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > I use a simple ant task to rename the file during the build process. > > > You dont have to do anything else. > > > > > <move file="${webapp.dir}/MainApp.html" tofile="${webapp.dir}/ > > > index.html"/> > > > > > You can see it here:- > > > > >http://checkappointments.com/checkAppointments/index.html > > > > > regards, > > > Addy > > >http://checkAppointments.com > > > > > On Jan 3, 1:10 pm, "David Hoffer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply. It sounds like you are suggesting a manual > > > process. > > > > I'm looking for an auto process, something I can do in code/xml/html > and > > > it > > > > just works. I use maven to build a war, I don't have the option of > > > manually > > > > moving files around. Is there a way I can code this in my gwt.xml > and/or > > > > html, etc? > > > > > > Again, my goal here is to remove the package names from the URLs so > the > > > site > > > > URLs look more 'normal'. I.e. my index.html file (which is my > > > welcome-file > > > > in my web.xml) points to com.mycompanyname.website.App/App.html. I > don't > > > > want users to see all this package stuff. > > > > > > -Dave > > > > > > 2009/1/3 Ian Bambury <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Once compiled, take all the files inside the package-name folder > and > > > put > > > > > them wherever you like. You can also change the host html page name > to > > > > > anything you want. If you change it in the source code, you will > have > > > to > > > > > change it in any file that runs hosted mode. > > > > > Just change 'MyProject.html' to the new name i.e. if there is no > > > '.html' > > > > > after the 'MyProject', don't change it because it is referring to > > > something > > > > > else - the actual project itself or maybe the prefix to the gwt.xml > > > file. > > > > > > > That is the problem with the project creator, although it makes > things > > > easy > > > > > by asking for one name (e.g. MyProject) it names everything as > > > MyProject - > > > > > the main class file, the html file, the gwt.xml file, the launch > files, > > > and > > > > > the project folder. > > > > > > > If you go to my site and join up (and confirm your email address, > just > > > so > > > > > people can't subscribe other people) for the free email course, the > > > first > > > > > day (which is sent immediately) there is a project you can > download > > > which > > > > > has all the elements named differently. You can always unsubscribe > > > > > immediately afterwards - the course mostly assumes you have > Eclipse, so > > > a > > > > > lot of it might not be relevant for you. > > > > > > > Ian > > > > > > >http://examples.roughian.com > > > > > > > 2009/1/3 David Hoffer <[email protected]> > > > > > > > Could you post what you did to make this work? I am not having any > > > success > > > > >> with the linkhttp:// > > > java.dzone.com/tips/getting-rid-package-based-gwt-. > > > > >> Also I don't use eclipse, could you explain in non-eclipse terms > how I > > > can > > > > >> remove the package names from the browser URLs? > > > > > > >> -Dave > > > > > > >> 2008/12/29 giannisdag <[email protected]> > > > > > > >>> Thank you, it is very simple as it should be. > > > > > > >>> On 29 Δεκ, 16:13, "Ian Bambury" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >>> > Don't do all that. Rename the page to index.html. In any > .launch > > > file, > > > > >>> > rename just the ProjectName.html part - just one place - leave > > > > >>> everything > > > > >>> > else alone. > > > > >>> > Ian > > > > > > >>> >http://examples.roughian.com > > > > > > >>> > 2008/12/29 giannisdag <[email protected]> > > > > > > >>> > > Hi, > > > > >>> > > I can' t figure out the solution to a simple problem. I want > to > > > > >>> rename > > > > >>> > > my first html page to index.html. I am using eclipse. I have > > > renamed > > > > >>> > > the html page and the corresponding java class file to > index.htm. > > > > >>> Also > > > > >>> > > i have changed the entry point of the settings xml file to > > > > >>> > > <entry-point class='com.xel.gwt.client.index'/> > > > > >>> > > But when i am running in host mode, i keep getting the > following > > > > >>> > > error. > > > > >>> > > [WARN] Resource not found: villaView.html; (could a file be > > > missing > > > > >>> > > from the public path or a <servlet> tag misconfigured in > module > > > > >>> > > com.xel.gwt.villaView.gwt.xml ?) > > > > >>> > > [TRACE] The development shell servlet received a request for > > > > >>> > > 'villaView.html' in module 'com.xel.gwt.villaView.gwt.xml' > > > > >>> > > How can I change the development shell servlet to fix the > > > problem? > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. 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