Dan and Isaac, Thanks very much for the explanation. I think the basic problem is the book. For this example it never makes clear where the service entry point comes from. A rather large and troublesome omission given that this is a fundamental part of the client-server contract.
-=beeky On Feb 3, 7:48 pm, Isaac Truett <[email protected]> wrote: > Dan is correct. For hosted mode, there would be a <servlet> tag such > as that. For web mode or hosted mode with -noserver, it would be a > mapping in web.xml. > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Dan Ox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > there should be an entry in your module.gwt.xml file similar to: > > > <servlet path="/tasks" class="com.myapp.TaskServlet" /> > > > That is where the task url is registered in hosted mode. When you > > deploy to a web server, you will need to specify the servlet with the > > "tasks" mapping in your web.xml. > > > On Feb 4, 8:31 am, beeky <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Isaac, > >> Thanks for the offer to help. Here are the lines from the book, I > >> think this is all that is needed to illustrate my question. > > >> TaskServiceAsync service = (TaskServiceAsync) GWT.create > >> (TaskService.class); > >> ServiceDefTarget serviceDef = (ServiceDefTarget) service ; > >> serviceDef.setServiceEntryPoint(GWT.getModuleBaseURL() + "tasks" ) ; > > >> It's "tasks" that has me confused. I have the example code from the > >> book but I don't see "tasks" used anywhere. What am I looking for, a > >> web.xml? And just to make matters more confusing, is this something > >> that GWT generates or is this mapping (whereever it is) the developers > >> responsibility? > > >> Thanks, > >> -=b > > >> On Feb 3, 3:26 pm, Isaac Truett <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> > It's a URL. If your GWT app is located athttp://www.foo.com/myappand > >> > you set the service entry point to GWT.getModuleBaseURL() + > >> > "myservice" then you'll end up sending an HTTP request > >> > tohttp://www.foo.com/myapp/myservice, and it will be received by the > >> > servlet mapped to that URL. > > >> > I haven't seen the example in question so I couldn't speak to why it > >> > doesn't make sense. If you want to post the relevant bits, I'd be > >> > happy to puzzle over it with you. It may, of course, just be a typo. > > >> > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:06 PM, beeky <[email protected]> > >> > wrote: > > >> > > I'm working my way through _Beginning Google Web Toolkit_ by Smeets, > >> > > Boness and Bankras and I'm thoroughly confused by the usage of > >> > > setServiceEntryPoint(). > > >> > > What is the parameter for this method supposed to be? It appears to > >> > > be a path since GWT.getModuleBaseURL() is always used as part of the > >> > > parameter. But in the example from BGWT the rest of the url does not > >> > > correspond to anything in the downloaded example code. > > >> > > I thought perhaps the portion after getModuleBaseURL() was a > >> > > configuration item, i.e. a setting for service entry point in > >> > > *.gwt.xml but that does not seem to be the case either. > > >> > > Could someone explain what this param is and how it is arrived at? > > >> > > Thanks for any help or guidance, > >> > > -=beeky --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
