Hi Keith-
We're also hurtin from the absolute ${workspace_loc} path. Looking
forward to the fix!
On Mar 18, 5:31 pm, Keith Platfoot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Michail,
>
> I've confirmed that this is a bug in 1.3: a directory browse dialog
> *should*be appearing when you launch, to ask for a WAR directory.
> However, it
> appears that this only happens when you create a new launch configuration
> from within the Run/Debug Configurations dialog. If you delete the existing
> launch configuration and then right-click the project and select Run As >
> Web Application, you should see the WAR directory prompt as expected (at
> least the first time... after that the -war argument should be persisted).
>
> Also, regarding the use of relative WAR directory paths: the lastWarOutDir
> setting is only used for convenience as an initial path when we display a
> directory browse dialog for selecting the WAR directory. If you want to
> specify the WAR directory argument in a launch configuration as a
> workspace-relative path, you should be able to use something like this:
>
> -war ${workspace_loc}/path/to/war
>
> However*,* I say *should* be able to, because unfortunately there is another
> bug in 1.3 that prevents that variable from being resolved.
>
> The good news is that* **we will release a fix tomorrow to resolve both of
> these bugs*, as well as the auto-escaping bug on Windows
> (http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=4762).
>
> Keith
>
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Michail Prusakov <
>
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > I've updated the plugin and while trying out the new stuff noticed
> > that the plugin seems to ignore the web directory name.
>
> > Here is what I've done: (for the record I am using eclipse galileo
> > SR2)
> > 1) created a wtp project with a default content directory (WebContent)
> > 2) checked "Use Google Web Toolkit"
> > 3) checked "This Project has a WAR directory", entered the name and
> > unchecked "Launch and deploy from this directory"
> > 4) saved the configuration and since I am using tomcat 6 as container,
> > changed the order of the gwt library as it is written here:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit/browse_thread/threa...
> > (BTW it would be great if the FAQ would mention it)
> > 5) created a module, html page, entry class (all using wizards)
> > 6) ran the project in tomcat
> > 7) created a debug configuration (all according to
> >http://code.google.com/eclipse/docs/faq.html#gwt_in_eclipse_for_java_ee)
>
> > Now the funny thing is, the manual said that the plugin would ask for
> > a destination, but it did not. Furthermore it created a war directory
> > and as a result the project did not work. I've then ran the gwt
> > compiler which did ask for the destination and compiled my project.
> > After that everything worked perfectly.
>
> > Even though the gwt compiler added a line lastWarOutDir=<correct path
> > here> to the com.google.gwt.eclipse.core.prefs file in
> > project's .settings directory, every time I lunch the project for some
> > reason the plugin still creates the war directory.
>
> > I've created another similar project. This time I've created a debug
> > configuration with "Run built-in server" checked. The plugin did ask
> > for the destination but still created the war directory.
>
> > BTW would it be possible to allow lastWarOutDir to accept relative
> > paths (relative to workspace that is)? We usually put the settings to
> > source control so that only one person would have to go through all
> > the setup process.
>
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