Thanks -- makes sense, although I hate the idea of having to do a "mvn
package" everytime before running in host mode.  If I punt on the
maven directory structure and go with the "war" directory can I
shorten my edit-debug cycle?  What do most maven users do?

On Jul 15, 6:25 pm, Daniel <[email protected]> wrote:
> The GWT Maven plugin deviates from the standard Maven directory
> structure by default, to accommodate the Google Plugin for Eclipse's
> default directory structure. If you want to use the standard Maven
> directory layout (with the static resources for your War file in src/
> main/webapp instead of the war directory) with the Google Plugin for
> Eclipse, there are some things you need to make sure of.
>
> 1. In the GWT Maven Plugin <configuration>, add <hostedWebapp>$
> {project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</hostedWebapp>.
> That will cause the plugin to use target/my-example-project-1.0.0-
> SNAPSHOT (or whatever your project is called) instead of the war
> directory.
> 2. Configure the Google Plugin for Eclipse to use src/main/webapp
> instead of war
> 3. Before you can run the project in hosted mode, you'll need to run
> mvn package, to copy your static resources from your GWT public
> package and src/main/webapp to your hosted mode directory. You'll only
> need to do this the first time.
>
> On Jul 16, 5:17 am, David Vree <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > The documentation is very complex, but ultimately it provided the
> > answer.  I needed to configure the maven-war-plugin to filter (e.g.
> > copy) the files from my webapp directory to the war directory.  I
> > accomplished this via the following snippet in my module level POM:
>
> >                         <plugin>
> >                                 <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
> >                                 <artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
> >                                 <configuration>
> >                                         
> > <webappDirectory>war</webappDirectory>
> >                                 </configuration>
> >                         </plugin>
>
> > Thanks for the help.  The debugging stop points don't work, but I'll
> > start a new thread on that....
>
> > On Jul 15, 11:19 am, SalvadorDiaz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Hi,
>
> > > You might want to take a look at the GWT maven plugin documentation
> > > (there are lots of useful tips):
>
> > >http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/
>
> > > Hope that helps,
>
> > > Salvador
>
> > > On 15 juil, 03:35, David Vree <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > Manually moving index.html to the WEB-INF directory solver the 404
> > > > problem. But there is still something wrong.
>
> > > > The pop-up window I get with the regular GWT application doesn't pop-
> > > > up in my application.  And the debugging stop point I added for
> > > > onModuleLoad doesn't catch.
>
> > > > On Jul 14, 6:40 pm, Thomas Broyer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > On 14 juil, 19:25, David Vree <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > > Total GWT newbie here trying to get the first app up and running.  
> > > > > > I'm
> > > > > > using Eclipse 3.5.2 and have created and run the sample app you get
> > > > > > with New->Google->Web Application.  The app and the GWT plugin for
> > > > > > Eclipse all work great.
>
> > > > > > Now I am trying to add a GWT client module to my multi-module maven
> > > > > > project that already contains various server maven-modules.  I used
> > > > > > the the "gwt-maven-plugin" archetype to create the module and the
> > > > > > directory structure seems fine, however, I cannot run in hosted 
> > > > > > mode.
>
> > > > > > When launching the debug web application I get an error in the
> > > > > > console:
>
> > > > > >      [WARN] No startup URLs supplied and no plausible ones found --
> > > > > > use -startupUrl
>
> > > > > > I noticed that the working application used the -startupUrl argument
> > > > > > to the launch and so I added "-startupUrl index.html" to mine but 
> > > > > > when
> > > > > > browsing to that location with firefox I get a 404.
>
> > > > > >      http://127.0.0.1:8888/index.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997
>
> > > > > > I picked index.html as the URL because the archetype created that 
> > > > > > file
> > > > > > in the "src/main/mywebapp/" directory -- which also contains my WEB-
> > > > > > INF directory.   I'm not sure this part of the directory structure 
> > > > > > is
> > > > > > correct.  Another potential problem is that the "war" directory in
> > > > > > this module does not contain the index.html.  So perhaps the 
> > > > > > resources
> > > > > > are not getting copied correctly.   Any guidance here is 
> > > > > > appreciated!
>
> > > > > I'm primarily a GWT user, and only started using Maven very recently.
> > > > > My project uses a "standard GWT project" layout where there's a war/
> > > > > folder at the "top level", and "standard Maven project" otherwise 
> > > > > (src/
> > > > > main/java, src/test/java, etc.)
> > > > > It works with the Eclipse plugin because this one expects (by
> > > > > default!) a war/ folder with some HTML (or JSP) page in it.
> > > > > Unfortunately, I can't really tell if it works "in Maven", as I
> > > > > haven't really tried a "mvn gwt:compile" (I'm prototyping and haven't
> > > > > yet committed enough things to our repo to know if it'd work on our
> > > > > new Hudson CI server)
> > > > > For now, I configured my Maven project following:
> > > > >  - gwt-maven-plugin 
> > > > > docs:http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/user-guide/war-folder.html
> > > > >  - GWT 2.1 Spring Roo integration (which generates a Maven project;
> > > > > note that I haven't ever used Spring Roo,just looking at the SVN 
> > > > > repo)https://fisheye.springsource.org/browse/spring-roo/addon-gwt/src/main...
>
> > > > > FWIW, I'm using the 1.3.1.google version of the gwt-maven-plugin that
> > > > > you can find in the GWT repo 
> > > > > athttp://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/2.1.0.M2/gwt/maven/
> > > > > (I'm also using GWT 2.1.0.M2 from that repo)
>
> > > > > Oh, the 404 *is* due to the index.html not being in the war/ folder.
> > > > > Running DevMode from the Eclipse plugin doesn't do anything Maven-
> > > > > related, so it won't try copying files around.

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