While you're in here, any chance you could do something more sane to JUnitHostImpl's failure mode when it can't deserialize an exception (this happens 100% of the time when testing with no metadata).
http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/632802/diff/1/2 File dev/core/src/com/google/gwt/dev/DevMode.java (right): http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/632802/diff/1/2#newcode428 dev/core/src/com/google/gwt/dev/DevMode.java:428: getTopLogger().log(TreeLogger.ERROR, "Port " I have to agree.. what's the impetus to change having this just spit directly to stderr? http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/632802/diff/1/5 File user/src/com/google/gwt/junit/RunStyleHtmlUnit.java (right): http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/632802/diff/1/5#newcode92 user/src/com/google/gwt/junit/RunStyleHtmlUnit.java:92: } +1 Or else.... should we be serving up application/javascript these days? http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/632802/show -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors