Hi It's a great new !!!! - Create a new project?
Just a maven process, I've never used the perhaps-existing maven-gwt-plugin archetype because I use very custom - Perform GWT compiles? With maven-gwt-plugin during packaging (clean install). Some time with GEP when I want to test integration with other JSP code. But IMHO when using spring the "noserver" mode is hightly preferable (classloader issues). - Debug with Eclipse? Simple Eclipse debug usage. With tomcat / WTP for server side code. - Run your tests? Maven - Create a WAR for deployment? Maven I've just commited my spring / security integration project where I encounter some classloading problem with the namespace handler of spring configuration file. IMHO this project is complicated enough to illustrate a GWT / WTP / Maven integration. http://code.google.com/p/orcades-gwt-spring/ There are two wiki pages to install && test HIH On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Keith Platfoot <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi folks, > > For the next release of the Google Plugin for Eclipse, we're planning on > making a few tweaks to make life easier for Maven users. That's right: we've > seen the stars on the issue tracker, and have decided it's time to act. I > would say, "we feel your pain", but the problem is, we don't. Which is to > say, nobody on the plugin team actually uses Maven (everybody around here > uses Ant). However, I've been researching Maven to determine exactly what > changes we should make to allow it to work more seamlessly with the Google > Eclipse Plugin. I've read the relevant issues and groups postings, so I > think I have a rough idea of what needs to happen. However, before we go and > make any changes, I wanted to ask for the community's advice. So, here are > some questions for you. > > What is the typical workflow of a GWT developer using Maven? > > I've installed Maven and the gwt-maven-plugin 1.2-SNAPSHOT and managed to > create a GWT 2.0 app with the provided archetype. After some tweaking, I'm > able to GWT compile, debug with Eclipse (though not via our Web App launch > configuration), create a WAR, etc. However, I'm more interested in how > you all are doing things. For example: > > How do you... > > > - Create a new project? > - Perform GWT compiles? > - Debug with Eclipse? > - Run your tests? > - Create a WAR for deployment? > > What specific pain points do Maven users run into when using the Google > plugin? > > I know one major obstacle is that our plugin currently treats the war > directory as both an input (e.g. static resources, WEB-INF/lib, > WEB-INF/web.xml) and output (WEB-INF/classes, GWT artifacts like nocache.js > and hosted.html) . Maven convention, however, says that /src/main/webapp > should be input only, which means that hosted mode (or development mode, in > GWT 2.0) needs to run from a staging directory (e.g. gwt:run creates a /war > folder on demand). This mismatch results in the plugin creating spurious > validation errors and breaks our Web App launch configuration. > > Another incompatibility is that Maven projects depend on the GWT Jars in > the Maven repo, whereas our plugin expects to always find a GWT SDK library > on the classpath. > > Are my descriptions of these pain points accurate? If so, one possible > solution would be for the plugin to allow the definition of an input war > directory (e.g. src/main/webapp) separate from a launch-time staging > directory, and for us to relax the requirement that all GWT projects must > have a GWT SDK library. So tell me: would these changes adequately reduce > the friction between Maven and the Google plugin? > > Also, are there other problems Maven users are running into when using the > plugin? > > Thanks in advance for all feedback, > > Keith, on behalf of the Google Plugin for Eclipse team > > -- > 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]<google-web-toolkit%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. -- Mohandas Gandhi--
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