https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/doc/latest/DevGuideServerCommunication#DevGuideDeRPC
says
about Direct-Eval RPC:
This feature did not work out as planned, and the GWT team strongly
discourages its use.
However, the classes RpcServlet, RpcService etc. are not marked as
In my opinion, it's currently unnecessarily difficult to integrate basic
transaction management with GWT-RPC.
Usually, in a web application it's best to start a transaction, when a call
arrives at the server, and to commit it, when the server has finished
processing and created the response.
I'd like to check out the code for 2.5.0-rc2. For previous versions I can
find a tag, e.g.
http://google-web-toolkit.googlecode.com/svn/tags/2.5.0-rc1;, with the svn
log entry
r11147 | rda...@google.com | 2012-06-27