On 23 September 2011 09:53, cri <chuck.irvine...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The uptick post is very outdated. It will only confuse folks I'm
> afraid. A much better place to start is the link I posted. (http://
> code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/wiki/WorkingWithMaven).
> Developing GWT in conjunction with Maven has IMHO always been error
> prone and tricky. It does seem like the GWT team is giving a little
> more importance to this than they have in the past. The new Indigo /
> maven integration has thrown a wrench in things to some extent.

I don't think that's entirely correct.

Maven works fine with GWT and has been since (IIRC) 2.1. What possibly
doesn't work fine is *Eclipse* + Maven + GWT. I have no problems
(other than the usual) but I run builds on the command line (where
they belong) and use Eclipse for simple compiling and
editing/refactoring/formatting/et cetera.

Having said that, there are certainly a number of issues. GWT's
approach to JARs/project management is not quite optimal. It requires
existing JARs to be changed to create one-offs that don't exist
anywhere else (AFAIK). Furthermore, these JARs are then all dumped
together in a few big ueber JARs. This breaks Maven's dependency
management and creates classpath problems. Luckily, the fallout
doesn't seem too bad. It would be great if this could be improved (and
work is being done in this area). Of course, it would be even better
if GWT used Maven itself instead of Ant... ;-)

By the way, I have not been able to get Indigo to run properly at all.
It keeps breaking on updates so I'm still on Helios. I do get the
impression that the Maven plugins (there's more than one) are at the
heart of the issue but I have not delved in any deeper.

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