Hello,

It seems to me in this day and age of virtual machines it might make sense 
for the GWT community to come up with a reference development platform 
configuration for GWT (ala the Linux Standard Base), preferably as VM 
snapshots (qcow2, vmdk, or whatever).  Then, when someone develops 
something and they want to make it available, they could verify that it 
works (and the steps necessary to get it to work) on a reference platform 
(tested on the 2.5.1 reference platform).

I expect that would eliminate a huge amount of configuration issues and 
questions here and on stack overflow, etc.  If someone has a problem, the 
first question could be, "Does it work on the reference platform?"  

Obviously, using Windows is out of the question because of licensing.  But, 
a Fedora (or some other Linux) distro with an Eclipse version (presumably 
Java, or Java EE editions) seems reasonable.  I think a 64-bit VM with 4G 
of RAM would be rather typical these days.

I bring this up because I have just done an install of Fedora 20, Eclipse 
Kepler Java EE SR1 in a new 64-bit VM (4G).  I also installed the GPE and 
m2e-apt plugins.  I then try to generate a nice starter project for GWT 
2.6.0 (with the gwt-maven-plugin 2.6.0-rc3 template)  and import it.  That 
works pretty well.  It runs in dev mode in eclipse and the test launches 
work too.  So far, so good.

But, if I do a 'mvn install' or a 'mvn package' the compiler crashes (*** 
Error in `java': double free or corruption).  Almost certainly this is due 
to a memory issue with the jvm.  Now, I'm sure after a bit of work, I will 
figure out a fix.

Now, on the other hand, if I run the same thing on my real development 
machine (Fedora 19 with Eclipse Java, not EE but a bunch of plugins) the 
'mvn install' and 'mvn package' work fine.  But, when I try to import the 
maven project into eclipse, the maven update crashes with a null pointer. 
 Again, after more work, I'm sure I will figure that out too.

That seems to me to be the case with a lot of example code for GWT. 
 Especially when maven is in the picture.

My twenty cents.

Rick Lochner

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