Ah ha! I dropped the ball in my testing, by supporting GWT 2.4+ instead of
limiting to something more recent and manageable like 2.5.1+. Confirmed,
SafeHtml etc is in gwt-servlet in recent GWT.
Thanks for the sanity check Thomas.
On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 3:43:48 AM UTC-5, Thomas Broyer wrote:
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> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 12:33:40 AM UTC+2, Colin Alworth wrote:
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>> Currently SafeHtml &co live in gwt-user, though they are for the most
>> part listed in a shared package, implying that a server can use them.
>> However, gwt-user.jar also includes javax packages as well as hibernate,
>> w3c, etc, so can't reasonably be imported to a server which already uses
>> any of those packages (i.e. any servlet container). Is this an oversight in
>> the publicly packaged GWT and is SafeHtml used by teams that package
>> differently, or instead is this package not actually intended for server
>> use, but instead just compile-time tasks where gwt-user is on the classpath
>> like compiling or linking?
>>
>> I'm doing some work on a non-servlet server which hasn't so far seen
>> concrete issues with gwt-user.jar, and having SafeHtml seemed to be an easy
>> way to get server generated HTML from code that is shared with the client.
>> This use case *appears* to be implied from the package name, but presently
>> isn't possible for the majority of GWT backends.
>>
>> Ideas on why it is the way it is? Thoughts on how to make it available to
>> the server (without giving it yet another jar a la requestfactory-server)?
>> Interest in a contributed SafeHtmlTemplates implementation for JVM?
>>
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> SafeHtml *is* in gwt-servlet. In 2.5.1 and earlier it was missing the
> streamhtmlparser classes, but we've fixed this in 2.6 so it should work now
> (I must say I haven't tried it though)
>
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