That is right, at the time that the project is GWT-enabled it checks for the existence of a war/WEB-INF/web.xml. If that exists it will think that it is dealing with a war-style project and then it will use the HostedMode if it is available or DevMode when launching the application. With that version of the plugin, if you have a war/WEB-INF/web.xml file in your project, then you can go to the project properties, and disable gwt for the project apply the changes, go back in and re-enable GWT. That should make it think that it is dealing with a war layout project and it won't use GWTShell.
There are a few problems with this heuristic that we need to revisit post 1.2/2.0. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Matt Mastracci <matt...@mastracci.com>wrote: > Ahh - there's a webAppNature in .project that gets set when you enable > GWT. I disabled GWT support, re-added it and now the .project has a > "com.google.gdt.eclipse.core.webAppNature". > > This seems to be the trigger for enabling DevMode vs. GWTShell. > > Thanks, > Matt. > > On 1-Dec-09, at 1:57 PM, Joel Webber wrote: > > > @Miguel: I've hit this before when upgrading projects, and I keep > > forgetting what the trick was. I seem to recall the plugin was > > making the project layout determination at the time the GWT nature > > is added, but I'm not 100% certain. > > > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Matt Mastracci > > <matt...@mastracci.com> wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I installed the GPE 2.0-RC2 build (after cleaning out the old one) and > > I'm running into some issues. The plugin thinks that we're using the > > old-style layout, so it's attempting to launch GWTShell which won't > > initialize a local Jetty w/war.xml. > > > > I've worked around it by creating a local copy of GWTShell that > > delegates to DevMode, but I'd like to figure out why it's using the > > wrong launch target. > > > > What is the heuristic for determining whether a project uses the war > > layout vs. the GWTShell layout? > > > > Thanks, > > Matt. > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > > > > > > -- > > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors > -- Miguel -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
