On Sunday, February 27, 2011 7:54:13 PM UTC+1, zixzigma wrote:
>
> do I need gwt-servlet and gwt-user library, in my pom.xml ?
>

It depends what you do with your pom.xml, i.e. how you use the dependencies.
 

> I was uploading my gwt app on app engine, I got the error
> saying gwt-user jar is too big, and I need to split it.
> I decided to comment out gwt-user, and I didn't get any error or warning,
> which made me wonder what dependencies I need to include in my build ?
>

See http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideDeploying.html
 

> and is there a library that need to be present in development mode, that 
> should be excluded in final build ?
>

DevMode and Compiler classes are in gwt-dev.jar, and all the code you use to 
build your app is in gwt-user.jar. Almost everything in gwt-user.jar is 
aimed at being compiled to JavaScript, the rest is present in gwt-servlet 
(making gwt-servlet a subset of gwt-user; well, there might be a few classes 
from gwt-dev too that are also copied to gwt-servlet, but that's an 
implementation detail).
In brief, you need gwt-dev and gwt-user to build your client-side code, and 
you need gwt-servlet (and only gwt-servlet) on the server-side (and only if 
you use GWT-RPC and/or RequestFactory).

This means that if your mix client-side and server-side code in your Maven 
module, you need to have gwt-user as <scope>provided</scope> (it's indeed 
provided by the gwt-maven-plugin) and gwt-servlet as <scope>runtime</scope> 
(gwt-dev is provided by the gwt-maven-plugin, so you don't need an explicit 
dependency, unless you have to write a generator or linker, but then beware 
of conflicts with some libraries; you'd better split your app into a 
client-side only and server-side modules)

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