Hi Hank, It should be possible to use GWT and the Eclipse plugin with a J2EE project. You said if you create the project as a dynamic web project, some GWT modules fail. By "GWT modules", do you mean GWT functionality within the plugin, or "modules" as defined by GWT<http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/1.6/DevGuideOrganizingProjects.html#DevGuideModules>? The Eclipse plugin does support enabling GWT for an existing project, as long as your project has a 'war' directory. I'm not sure about going in the other direction, though: creating the project as a Web Application project and then enabling J2EE features on it (such as associating it with a Tomcat server). Could you elaborate a bit on what sort of failures you're seeing?
Depending on your setup, the integration might be easier if you are willing to use 2 projects, one with your GWT code and one with your JSPs and server code. GWT supports debugging against a separate backend, so it should be able to run/debug GWT code alongside your JSPs hosted by Tomcat. You'll need to do is start the Tomcat server first (debug or run mode should be fine). Then in your Google Web Application launch config, uncheck the box on the Main tab labelled 'Run built-in server' and change the URL in the GWT tab to the address of your Tomcat server. When you start the Web Application launch configuration, the GWT hosted mode shell will hit your Tomcat server, but still provide full debugging functionality for your GWT code. If you can let me know more about your application setup and more details about the problems you're running into, we'll see if we can get something figured out. Thanks, Keith On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Hank <[email protected]> wrote: > > We're in the process of migrating a large application (well, a > collection of applications, really -- we're decomposing a very big > webapp along business process lines) from jsp/tomcat with a little bit > of ajax to all-gwt, and are having difficulty setting things up in > eclipse. If we set the project up as a dynamic web project, some gwt > modules fail in various ways. If (and this is what we prefer) we set > the project up as a gwt project, there doesn't seem to be any way to > associate the project with tomcat. What we'd like to be able to do is > to run/test/debug gwt in the normal way and also run/test/debug > conventional jsp's on a local tomcat from within the same project. > This because we're trying to move incrementally -- convert/integrate > one bit of an application, then the next, then the next, repeat until > done. > > Ideally, we'd also be able to transparently deploy gwt modules to the > local tomcat and run/test/debug gwt integrated with the jsp's. Am I a > cockeyed optimist, or is this feasible? > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
