Hi, I am new to GWT I have only gone through the getting started tutorial and watched most of the videos from Google IO. I am quite impressed with GWT and I am trying to move to the next stage of actually using it in the current application I am developing. The application I am working on is built on Spring 3.0 and JPA/Hibernate and postgres database so I have no need to run it on the Google AppEngine.
I have spent a significant amount of time trying to get GWT working within an existing eclipse dynamic web project and I am still not able to get it running. Part of the problem is that I don't really understand the process of adding GWT to an existing project. Here is what I have done so far. On the project properties page in eclipse I have. 1. Clicked "Use Google Web Toolkit" under Properties > Google > Web Toolkit 2. Clicked "This project has a war directory" under Properties > Google > Web Application and I have set the war directory to "WebContent" my war directory for the project with the check box "Launch and Deploy from this directory" turned on. I am not understanding what the Run as > Web Application (running on external web server) is supposed to do, it seems to only bring up the dialog box for the HTML page selection for the module, but does not seem to start my server. is the idea that I am supposed to start the server and then this option just brings up the view with the link to launch a browser? I ran into a class path conflict with java compiler that is part of tomcat so I had to put the GWT earlier in the project classpath. This has me worried that there are other classpath conflicts which might cause problems at runtime and be hard to diagnose. Any thought on this are highly appreciated. Also I am not clear if the recommended best practice is to use one project for the back-end and a separate project for the GWT font end. Thanks Adib -- 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]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
