Can we get a patch? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Scott Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hearing no objections, we implemented this. :) > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:00 AM, BobV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> Scott, Miguel, Kelly, and I sat down today to try to resolve some of >> the problems with the existing "WAR" deployment design. Here is our >> strawman proposal for how it should work in the future (we can go into >> more detail on the rationale). Note that legacy mode would be >> supported for 1.6 to maintain backwards compatibility. >> >> Either: >> 1a) A new tag in GWT modules to specify a subdir in the output folder >> to deploy into, something like: <deploy-path value="/shortName" /> >> - This specifies a subdirectory inside your WAR directory that GWT >> should output public files (and compiled files) into. For backwards >> compatibility, the default value if this tag isn't specified will be >> the fully-qualified module name. >> - Our project creator could emit a either a module short name, or a >> constant name (such as "gwt" or "compiled"). >> - A user could also specify "/" to dump the output directly into the >> top level of the WAR directory. >> - <deploy-path> tags are inherited and last-one wins. >> >> or: >> 1b) A new attribute "deploy-path" on the <module> tag. >> - As above, except that the value is not inherited. >> >> 2) GWTShell (or another entry point) requires you to specify the >> modules you care about on the command line. This is critical because >> during hosted mode development, we need to create a map of deploy-path >> -> module name. It also breaks potential circular dependencies >> between static html files and public resources. It also gives an easy >> answer to "What does Compile/Browse do?" in hosted mode. >> >> 3) The GWT module <servlet> tag is deprecated; it only works in legacy >> mode and is ignored (or generates a warning) in WAR mode. Instead, >> you should configure servlets in your web.xml. >> >> -- >> Bob Vawter >> Google Web Toolkit Team >> >> >> > > > > -- Miguel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
