As a follow-up to this discussion, I went ahead and logged an
enhancement to the gwt-maven-plugin to automatically resolve and
download the source jars[1].  It seems like it will be included in the
next release.

[1] - http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MGWT-170

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Richard Allen
<[email protected]> wrote:
> We also use the Maven sources JAR approach. The .class and .java do
> NOT have to be in the same JAR file. The GWT compiler will just need
> the sources JAR on the classpath, which you can accomplish via Maven
> dependency management, as you have stated.
>
> The only problem I found using the Maven provided scope is that
> provided scope is currently not transitive. So if you have project A
> depend on project B, which depends on project C, and project C builds
> a sources JAR for GWT, then you can't use provided scope if you want
> the GWT compile to happen with project A. To work around this, we
> simply use excludes to prevent the sources JARs from being included in
> the final WAR.
>
> Also note that if you build test JARs, test dependencies are not
> transitive. There is a JIRA issue to fix this: 
> http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MNG-1378.
>
> -Richard
>
>
> On Feb 5, 4:09 pm, Micah <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I acknowledge that the source needs to be available for the gwt
>> compiler but I still question if the source needs to be in the same
>> jar as the compiled endstates you'd ship to a client.  Is there
>> documentation that states the requirements (location/conditions) for
>> providing source code to the gwt compiler?  I guess I'm asking in
>> general as opposed to specifically using the gwt-maven-plugin.
>>
>> I'm still testing this out but it seems like it should work as long as
>> a jar with the source code is on the classpath.  The approach I'm
>> trying to take is to follow themavenstandard of producing a *-sources.jar 
>> during the build of the first module.  Then all consuming
>> modules will list the standard jar as a compile scoped dependency and
>> thesourcesjar as a provided scoped dependency.
>>
>> If this is going to take me down a road of pain I'd like to know ahead
>> of time.
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Micah
>>
>> On Feb 5, 6:00 am, getaceres <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > Yes, they have to be in the same jar, so you have to include this
>> > lines in your pom.xml:
>>
>> > <build>
>> >         .....................................
>> >         <resources>
>> >             <resource>
>> >                 <directory>src/main/java</directory>
>> >             </resource>
>> >             <resource>
>> >                 <directory>src/main/resources</directory>
>> >             </resource>
>> >         </resources>
>> >         .................................
>> >     </build>
>>
>> > On 4 feb, 23:08,Micah<[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> > > I currently have a GWT app that I'm looking to break into separate
>> > > modules.  The build system is currently Maven2 and utilizing the gwt-
>> > >maven-plugin[1].  When reading over the documentation on how to do
>> > > this, I wonder what exactly are the requirements around the source
>> > > code for a module being available for packaging another module.  Does
>> > > the source (*.java)  have to be in the same jar or does it just have
>> > > to be on the classpath?
>>
>> > >Maven'sgeneral approach is to make source available in a secondary
>> > > artifact using themaven-source-jar[2].  This is nice because it
>> > > removes bloat from my endstates but also I don't have to worry about
>> > > shipping source code to each of my clients.
>>
>> > > So do I have to have *.java files in my jar or are there other means
>> > > of accomplishing this to make the GWT compiler happy?
>>
>> > > Thanks for your help,
>> > >Micah
>>
>> > > [1] 
>> > > -http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/user-guide/multiproject.html
>> > > [2] -http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-source-plugin/jar-mojo.html
>
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