I'm considering migrating an existing application from being built with
Ant, to being built with Maven.
I've been doing a lot of reading and experimenting with the
net.ltgt.gwt.maven gwt-maven-plugin but can't seem to wrap my head around
the specifics of moving our existing application to the multi-(maven)module
model recommended for this plugin.
This application is really two apps in one (each with a separate
EntryPoint) plus a third 'common' gwt-module plus supporting common java
classes, etc. Both App-A and App-B GWT modules "inherit" the Common GWT
module. Finally a separate control servlet acts the front-end and returns
HTML invoking the correct GWT javascript (App-A or App-B) based on the
requested URL.
Our current project structure is:
Project
src
com
foo
app_a
client
<client-side (GWT related) classes>
AppAEntryPoint.java
server
<server-side classes>
shared
<classes shared by client and server packages>
App_A.gwt.xml
app_b
client
<client-side (GWT related) classes>
AppBEntryPoint.java
server
<server-side classes>
shared
<classes shared by client and server packages>
App_B.gwt.xml
common
client
<client-side (GWT related) classes>
server
<server-side classes>
shared
<classes shared by client and server packages>
Common.gwt.xml (no <entry-point> defined)
war
WEB_INF
lib
<dependent jars>
My best guess right now for migrating the structure would be to break this
into 3 separate projects (App-A, App-B and Common) each with 3 maven
modules (App-A-client, App-A-Server, App-A-shared, App-B-client, etc...)
But this seems a bit extreme in that we would end up with 12 distinct
Eclipse projects, with code 'spread' across 9 of those. I feel like if
App-A and App-B didn't have their own EntryPoints that I could easily
transform this to fit the multi-module archetype structure, but the
multiple EntryPoints keeps tripping me up.
Is there something obvious (or not) that I'm missing that would allow our
app to 'live' in the (relatively simple) archetyped structure?
BTW - my main reason for wanting to move to a maven-based build is to
manage the dependent jars in the web-inf/lib directory.
Thanks in advance for any pointers!
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GWT
Users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to [email protected].
To post to this group, send email to [email protected].
Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
