I would suggest using ant, it provides more flexibility. I have been on a GWT project with Maven and Ant, and Ant hit a lot less roadbumps. Also if you want to build GWT itself it uses Ant.
Cheers, Scott On Nov 28, 2:47 am, Jan Ehrhardt <jan.ehrha...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Yes, Maven can be complex, but if your project has a clear structure, it can > be very powerful. > > Another option, I haven't tried yet, could be Gradle. It is a build tool, > that uses Groovy for writing build scripts. The benefit is, that it's based > on Ant and Ivy, so it allows you to use all the Ant stuff around. > > Regards > Jan Ehrhardt > > On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM, gwtfanb0y > <siegfried.b...@googlemail.com>wrote: > > > Now after all the maven enthusiasts above this comment, i have to say > > some words about ANT. > > I have used the default ant build-scripts (which are included inside > > the project when you create > > it with the webAppCreator) in all of my projectes and it worked very > > well. If you want to add > > new ant-targets e.g. for gui-tests, these are easy to implement. > > > My experience with maven is, when you have a big project, the > > administration of maven is > > a fulltime job. > > > If you have litte experience with maven und need to start fast your > > project, so you should > > choose ANT. > > > On 26 Nov., 22:46, jbdhl <jbirksd...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I'm about to start a new GWT project but can't decide weather to use > > > maven or not - partly because I'm completely new to maven. Are there > > > really large benefits from using maven? I've heard, that not even > > > google is using it, and this worries me a little. > > > > Our project will be a bit of a mix of various stuff and I don't know > > > how well this fits into the maven structure: > > > > * besides the usual client/servlet code, we will build a few smaller > > > java tools to be run periodically by cron. > > > > * we will use a bunch of scripts written in various languages to > > > solve different tasks > > > > * the project will include a bunch of documentation and text > > > documents > > > > All in all: what is your recomendation? Maven or not? > > > -- > > > 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-tool...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<google-web-toolkit%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. -- 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-tool...@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.
