RE: gwt-maven-plugin - revisited

This is one of my main pet-peeves with GWT, the tool chain is pretty
inflexible.

For myself, I want the GWT code generated into my webapp target (maybe
configurable to source as well) so that when I run the application in a
container all the parts are in place.

I did take a quick look at the GWT compiler and it looks like that is not a
lot of choice in how it generates the files... I did think I could write
small Ant script (or even add to the plugin) to put things in the correct
place.

For your example, instead of "my" can we simple call it "gwt" and have it
generated to target?

IMO I definitely think it should go to the target directory during the
compile or a post-compile phase, but can we come up with a way to make this
a little more seamless for packaging?

- Brill Pappin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Matthew Pryor [mailto:jmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: January 29, 2007 12:47 AM
> To: dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [mojo-dev] gwt-maven-plugin - revisited
> 
> Thanks that works fine now.
> 
> On the topic of maven webapps and GWT, I am trying to work 
> out the right way to combine the 2.
> 
> Standard web layout is like so:
> 
>   .
>   |-- pom.xml
>   `-- src
>       `-- main
>           |-- java
>           |   `-- com
>           |       `-- example
>           |           `-- projects
>           |               `-- SampleAction.java
>           |-- resources
>           |   |-- images
>           |   |   `-- sampleimage.jpg
>           |   `-- sampleresource
>           `-- webapp
>               |-- WEB-INF
>               |   `-- web.xml
>               |-- index.jsp
>               `-- jsp
>                   `-- websource.jsp
> 
> If we add a GWT module to this, it might change like this:
> 
>   .
> .
> |-- pom.xml
> `-- src
>      `-- main
>          |-- java
>          |   `-- com
>          |       `-- example
>          |           `-- projects
>          |               `-- SampleAction.java
>          |   `-- my
>          |       `-- groupid
>          |           `-- Appl.gwt.xml
>          |           `-- client
>          |               `-- Appl.java
>          |           `-- public
>          |               `-- Appl.html.java
>          |-- resources
>          |   |-- images
>          |   |   `-- sampleimage.jpg
>          |   `-- sampleresource
>          `-- webapp
>              |-- WEB-INF
>              |   `-- web.xml
>              |-- icons
>              |   `-- myicon.png
>              |-- index.jsp
>              `-- jsp
>                  `-- websource.jsp
> 
> In particular, I am wondering abotu how I should handle web 
> assets such as icons and other images that are to be accessed 
> via HTTP.
> If I want to use icons for a GMarker for examle, having them 
> in webapp/icons/ is technically the right place, but they 
> don't get packaged up until I build the WAR, so they won't be 
> available to the GWTShell.
> I could place them in src/main/java/my/groupid/public but 
> that's not really the *MAVEN* way.
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 29/01/2007, at 4:35 PM, kristian wrote:
> 
> > the anonymous svn is fixed now - I am in the moment moving 
> the site to 
> > a new server, sorry for the inconvenience.
> >
> > of course I will incorporate your patches and hopefully 
> bring them all 
> > to codehaus one day.
> >
> > Kristian
> >
> > On 1/29/07, J. Matthew Pryor <jmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Thanks for the reply. I am very happy to use your 
> repository & code 
> >> for now if that's OK I found that the web links to 
> anonymous SVN did 
> >> not work however?
> >> Are you able to fix that?
> >> I am happy to submit patches to you or whatever.
> >>
> >> Thanks for all the excellent work you have done on this.
> >>
> >> Matthew
> >>
> >> On 29/01/2007, at 4:04 PM, kristian wrote:
> >>
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I am myself using the plugin in two little projects and 
> I am still 
> >> > fixing some little bugs here and there, when I run into 
> them. but I 
> >> > did not upload a new tar.gz everytime I did some changes.
> >> >
> >> > the archetypes you can find under
> >> > http://www.saumya.de/projects/gwt-tools/
> >> > along with my latest sources.
> >> >
> >> > I do agree that the archetypes are very useful, better than copy
> >> and
> >> > paste sample configurations into my my new pom.xml.
> >> >
> >> > anytime this plugin becomes part of codehaus I will start using 
> >> > codehaus and contribute to the codehaus plugin.
> >> >
> >> > Kristian
> >> >
> >> > On 1/28/07, J. Matthew Pryor <jmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> I have been working with the code submitted as a patch 
> by Kristian 
> >> >> Meier and achieving great results.
> >> >>
> >> >> There are also a bunch of issues I have come up against and was 
> >> >> hoping to start up a discussion with other folks, but not much
> >> seems
> >> >> to have happened with it.
> >> >>
> >> >> Is there anyone out there who is interested to push the 
> plugin on 
> >> >> further? Its very close to being very useful.
> >> >>
> >> >> Kristian if you are still on list I'd like to see the
> >> archetypes as
> >> >> well, they could save a lot of time.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks,
> >> >> Matthew Pryor
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>  
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