OK, here are the steps I am now using (note that I am using Eclipse 3.3.2, Apache Tomcat 6, and Firefox, all under Linux):
1. Use Eclipse and the new GWT plugin to create a project. Let's call it "MyProject". Eclipse will create everything under a module name of "myproject", including a web page named MyProject.html. 2. Do whatever to the project, but finally compile it to get class files, etc. 3. In a terminal window, go to the war directory created by Eclipse in step 1 above and execute jar -cvf ROOT.jar * 4. Stop Tomcat. (Note that I do a lot of stopping and starting Tomcat here. Maybe all such steps are not necessary.) 5. Copy the ROOT.war file created in step 3 above to Tomcat's webapps directory. 6. Remove Tomcat's old ROOT directory. (Tomcat should be smart enough to replace ROOT when it expands ROOT.war, but why take the chance.) 7. Start Tomcat to expand ROOT.war into a new ROOT directory. 8. Stop Tomcat. (I tried skipping this step, but Tomcat did not seem to be able to both expand ROOT.war and recognize the newly created ROOT directory at the same time.) 9. Winthin the new ROOT directory, copy MyProject.html to index.html. (I really want Tomcat to serve from index.html. Maybe someone can find a way for Eclipse to do this, but it must also do the following step 10.) 10. Within ROOT/WEB-INF, edit web.xml and change <welcome- file>MyProject.html</welcome-file> to <welcome-file>index.html</ welcome-file>. (This makes step 9 above work.) 11 Start Tomcat. After completin the above steps, you should be able to execute your project in a web browser via http://localhost:8080/ or http://localhost:8080/index.html. When I replicate these steps for my web hosting company, my users will get to my project simply via http://my-domain-name.com, because there I have set up my-domain- name.com to serve everything through Tomcat. I hope this helps someone. This is "roll your own" on steriods, but it works. When GWT can do this, I will be relieved. Maybe the two suggestions above by Stan B and jamie are better, but I had to go through the above steps to understand exactly what is involved. Regards, Danny On Apr 30, 1:05 pm, Alex Rudnick <a...@google.com> wrote: > We've got a feature request for the plugin for adding support for > exporting to a .war file and handling .ears. > > http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=3584 > > So if this would be a helpful feature for you, you might like to make > comments on that feature request or star the issue. > > Thanks! > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Danny <dhho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Thanks everyone. I now see that this is a web feature. When I saw > > the new GWT 1.6 war file construction and eclipse plugin, I thought my > > deployment life was getting rosier. Maybe later. > > > When I have gotten my project deployment where I want it, I will post > > my resultd. > > > Regards, > > > Danny > > -- > Alex Rudnick > swe, gwt, atl --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Web-Toolkit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
