On Tuesday, February 3, 2015 at 7:53:11 PM UTC+1, Laurent D wrote:
>
> Hello there,
>
>
> I decided to give GWT 2.7 a quick test using Thomas Broyer's "Multi 
> project setup" sample included as part of its gwt-maven-plugin source:
>
> (doc: 
> http://mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/user-guide/multiproject.html)
>
> (source: 
> https://github.com/gwt-maven-plugin/gwt-maven-plugin/tree/master/src/it/reactor
> )
>

Note: this is not "my" plugin, I'm just pushing updates and releases from 
time to time. "My" plugin is https://github.com/tbroyer/gwt-maven-plugin, 
and "my" multi-module setup can be found 
at https://github.com/tbroyer/gwt-maven-archetypes
The "setup" you're linking to is an integration test, not a sample (as 
warned in the documentation)

 

> While building this project with Maven 3.0.5 only required minor tweaking 
> of the reactor project's pom (basically replacing  '@pom.version@' and 
> '@gwt.version@' placeholders with hard-coded values), I was unable to get 
> it to compile with GPE under Eclipse, using the 'Google > GWT Compile' 
> option. The error I first got (which did not make much sense IMHO...) was:
>
> Compiling module org.codehaus.mojo.gwt.test.Hello
>    Looking for precompiled archives.  To disable, use 
> -Dgwt.usearchives=false
>    Loading archived module: 
> jar:file:/C:/Local/maven2/repository/com/google/gwt/gwt-user/2.7.0/gwt-user-2.7.0.jar!/com/google/gwt/core/Core.gwtar
> [ERROR] Unexpected internal compiler error
> java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/objectweb/asm/MethodVisitor
>  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
>  at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:800)
>  at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
>
>  .../...
>  
>  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
> org.objectweb.asm.MethodVisitor
>  at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:366)
>
>  .../...
>
> I then tried to edit the POM and use "2.5.1" as GWT version and had the 
> compiler complain about not being able to find the 'HelloAsyncService' 
> class... 
> I checked and it was actually in the 'target/generated-sources/gwt' of the 
> 'war' project, and this source directory was not on the Java Build Path in 
> Eclipse (I guess  the POM is missing a 'maven-build-helper-plugin' exection 
> for adding this directory as source directory in Eclipse...)
>

Eclipse is supposed to auto-detect that folder as a source folder (I never 
tried it though, I don't use gwt:generateAsync, heck I don't even use RPC); 
try updating the project (from memory: right-click → Maven → update project 
from POM).
 

>  
> Anyway, just manually adding 'target/generated-sources/gwt' as a source 
> folder to the Java Build Path and retrying 'Google > GWT Compilation', this 
> time the project compiled fine with GPE in Eclipse.
>  
> Feeling relieved and confident I had finally nailed it, I then changed 
> back the GWT version to 2.7.1 in the 'reactor' project POM to have another 
> try, but this time I got this error in Eclipse:
>  
>
> Loading inherited module 'org.codehaus.mojo.gwt.test.Hello'
>    Loading inherited module 'com.google.gwt.user.User'
>       Loading inherited module 'com.google.gwt.core.Core'
>          Loading inherited module 'com.google.gwt.core.CompilerParameters'
>             [ERROR] Element 'module' beginning on line 17 contains 
> unexpected attribute 'type'
>             [ERROR] Failure while parsing XML
> com.google.gwt.core.ext.UnableToCompleteException: (see previous log 
> entries)
>  at 
> com.google.gwt.dev.util.xml.DefaultSchema.onUnexpectedAttribute(DefaultSchema.java:72)
>  at 
> com.google.gwt.dev.util.xml.Schema.onUnexpectedAttribute(Schema.java:80)
>  
> Again, this does not seem to make much sense as an 'mvn clean package' on 
> the 'reactor' project works fine on the command line with Maven 3.0.5, as 
> does an 'mvn gwt:compile' on the child 'war' project...
>
>  
>
> For the record, I'm using 32-bit Eclipse 4.4.1 on Windows 7, with GPE 
> v3.8.0.v201410302155-rel-r44
>
>
> Any ideas as to the likely cause for this error and how it can be remedied 
> please?
>

As it's an Eclipse-specific failure, I'd ask on the GPE forum (which 
actually asks you to ask on 
StackOverflow): https://groups.google.com/d/forum/google-plugin-eclipse
 

>
> I am getting more and more fed up with the Eclipse WTP, M2E and GPE deadly 
> combination.... No offense meant, but this shaky tooling really ruins the 
> GWT coding experience... I spend all day tweaking things in Eclipse so that 
> I can make my GWT projects compile, and then I have to battle again to have 
> them run in Dev Mode or Super Dev Mode as the case may be... It really is a 
> gigantic pain, we lose whole days trying to just setup a project correctly 
> so that it will compile and run...
>

The start of a solution is to always first understand what you want to do, 
then have your tools do it.
I don't quite understand why you'd want to compile from within Eclipse, and 
IIRC that's not really configuration.
DevMode and SuperDevMode are almost-regular launchers so you can easily 
tweak them to add/remove arguments, or folders to/from the classpath. And 
if that doesn't work the way you like, then just create regular launchers.
 

> Can we expect a new version of GPE anytime soon? Also, it would greatly 
> help if you could update the GPE documentation that is rather thin, 
> especially as far as the GWT side of things is concerned...
>

This is something you should ask to the GPE guys.
 

> I am aware that people working on these various tools do their best and I 
> do not mean to be disrespectful, but the situation has really been giving 
> very bad press to GWT for years, and it does not seem to improve much... 
> Setting up and developing a GWT project is already error-prone and 
> complicated enough, we really need some more robust tooling and 
> documentation / checklists to support development...
>
>
> Sorry for such a long rant, and hoping you can provide some guidance on 
> this,
>

HTH 

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