Oliver’s Place

I’ve spent the past week juggling with GWT, Maven 2, Eclipse, Jetty 6 and Tomcat 6. My goal was:

• Run GWT hosted mode using noserver switch in order to use my own application server / container. The reason for this was that I wanted to experiment with Jetty 6’s continuations and Tomcat 6’s Cometprocessor servlet interface
• Keep full debugging support for both server and client code in Eclipse in noserver mode
• Fully automated command line builds, packing and deployments using Maven

Switching to noserver hosted mode in GWT has a couple of implications. When using the -noserver flag, your external server is used by the GWT Hosted Mode browser to serve up both your dynamic content, and all static content (such as the GWT application’s host page, other HTML files, images, CSS, and so on.). GWT’s internal Tomcat is no longer used. This also means that you are totally on your own with everything happening on the server side.

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