Thank You so much for your suggestions, also with the help from gwt-maven-plugin group, I could somehow get it working.
I have questions regarding using mvn jetty, and mvn gwt:run in short, when having multi-module maven gwt projects, 1- from which directory you run mvn jetty ? (root or the sub-project containing webapp) ? 2- do you always run mvn install, before then running mvn jetty:x ? 3- how do you deal with mvn gwt:run ? because client part itself is split in couple of sub-projects, Thank You Background: (my current configuration) app | app-client: packaging=pom, has N gwt-sub-projects, with packaging JAR | + 1 sub-project (assembly)with packaging JAR, which gathers sources for all the N sub-projects, | and using gwt-maven-plugin, compiles the Java sources to generate compiled artifacts, | then uses maven-assembly plugin to archive these gwt-generated files into a ZIP file | | ---- app-server: - typical maven multi-module setup | app-shared (have not tried this yet) | | ------ app-webapp - has src/main/webapp, which contains static files, such as WEB-INF/web.xml, and it is in this sub-project in which app-client assembled zip file is overlayed. I set this up, with your advice, and it works. thank you! the way things work now is as below: from app root, I first run : mvn install , and then switch to app-webapp directory, and run jetty:run-exploded or jetty:run-war this works, is this the way it should be ? if I simplly run mvn jetty:run-exploded from app-webapp directory, it complains about dependency not resolved (zip assembly not present) as a result I have to install the app-client artifact first, which requires a re-compile. I am not sure, and I am also don't know how to correctly use mvn gwt:run. my client maven module, is consisted of several maven sub-projects, how to correctly use mvn gwt:run in this situation ? Would be very grateful if you please share your experience or suggestions. Thank you for reading this, -- 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.