I agree...writing compiled code under a source tree is a bad idea. As a
matter of fact, while trying to upgrade to GWT 1.6.4 i deleted my images
directory by accident when i was cleaning things up under my src/main/webapp
directory.
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM, Farrukh Najmi <
farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com> wrote:
>
> For others benefit, here is how I have my pom (see lines in bold font for
> relevant config):
>
> <build>
> *<outputDirectory>target/hosted/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>*
> <plugins>
> <plugin>
> <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
> <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
> <version>1.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
> <configuration>
> *<output>${basedir}/target/hosted</output>*
> <module>com.test.CalendarApp</module>
> <runTarget>com.test.CalendarApp/Calendar.html</runTarget>
> </configuration>
> <executions>
> <execution>
> <goals>
> <goal>compile</goal>
> <goal>test</goal>
> </goals>
> </execution>
> </executions>
> </plugin>
> ...
> <plugins>
> ...
> <build>
>
> It seems to me that writing generated output in the src tree (rather than
> the target tree) is not good maven practice.
> I do not know enough of the issues involved but I feel we should change the
> default for the plugin to be a directory under
> target tree and still have normal behavior. What do you and others think of
> changing the defaults to something like what I show above in bold? Thanks.
>
>
> nicolas de loof wrote:
>
>
> Gwt compiler output is set by default to webapp source folder so that you
> can easily startup a "noserver" server using mvn jetty:run or equivalent
> tomcat setup.
>
> You can override this by configuration if you wish, but this doesn't
> breack building the WAR anyway.
>
> Still need to improve the doc ;)
>
> 2009/4/18 Farrukh Najmi <farr...@wellfleetsoftware.com>
>
>>
>> BTW I generated my project structure via:
>>
>> mvn -Dgwt.version=1.6.0 archetype:generate
>> -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo \
>> -DarchetypeArtifactId=gwt-maven-plugin -DarchetypeVersion=1.1-SNAPSHOT
>> -DgroupId=com.test -DartifactId=gwt-latest
>>
>> Lastly, I am not sure why I am getting generated files in the following
>> directories:
>>
>> /src/main/webapp/.gwt-tmp
>> src/main/webapp/com.test.Application
>>
>> Why are these not being written to my target tree.
>>
>> In case you need it my very minimal project is available as a zip here:
>>
>> <http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com/files/gwt-latest.zip><http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com/files/gwt-latest.zip>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Regards,
> Farrukh
>
> Web: http://www.wellfleetsoftware.com
>
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