GWT Gradle Plugin

This plugin makes it easy to build projects using GWT.

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Overview

This plugin makes it easy to build projects using GWT. It provides several tasks to support the development and configures several aspects of your project to work with GWT automatically. Among other things, the plugin provides these features: Running the GWT compiler and automatic inclusion of the compiled stuff in your *.war file Starting GWT Dev Mode Suppo...

Quickstart

This chapter will guide you through the first steps to configure gwt-gradle-plugin for your web application project. Plugin dependency As it is not a core Gradle plugin, you have to ensure, that Gradle knows how to get the plugin. To do this, add the following lines to your build.gradle, as GWT Gradle Plugin is available in Maven central repository. buildscr...

Project Types

This document describes various project types that can be worked with gwt-gradle0-plugin. Web application Using gwt-gradle-plugin to configure a web application project is the most common use-case. Quickstart shows how to configure GWT based web application projects. Library project If you create your own GWT library (e.g. widget library) you will only need...

GWT Dependencies

GWT specific configurations The plugin defines two custom Gradle configurations: gwtSdk: This configuration is used for GWT SDK itself excluding gwt-servlet (gwt-dev, gwt-user) gwt: This configuration should be used to specify all GWT client specific dependencies (e.g. widget libraries as GXT) As "gwt-servlet" is used on the server-side, you typica...

Configuration References

Plugin configuration The plugin registers an extension named "gwt" of type GwtPluginExtension with the Gradle model. This extension defines the conventions/defaults for all GWT related tasks. If you use the extension to do the configuration, the plugin ensures that the configuration properties are consistently set as default values to all related t...

The Draft War

What is a draft war? A full build of a GWT project can be very time consuming depending on the size of the project. During development you do not always need a production quality version of your application. That's why developers often change the *.gwt.xml files or compiler flags locally to speed up compilation. As this is dirty and you have to be very caref...

Using SuperDevMode

How to run Super Dev Mode? Be aware that the Super Dev Mode is only available in GWT 2.5+. Additionally be aware that Super Dev Mode requires specific browsers to work! This chapter does not describe the usage of “Super Dev Mode” in detail. Please refer to the official documentation to learn how to use it. Be aware that you need to adjust your *gwt.xml” file...

Working with Eclipse

From 1.12.0, the eclipse related code has been removed from the plugin code, please use the GWT eclipse plugin etc. to setup your projects. The information on this page is outdated. This Eclipse feature has been tested with Eclipse 4.7 and the gwt plugin version 3.0.0. This will now not work with gwt plugin versions less than 3.0.0. Project Layout TODO GPE v...

Working with Intellij IDEA

Intellij IDEA has very good support for Gradle projects, so it's easy to import Gradle projects into Inteiij IDEA. It's recommended that you should always use Gradle wrapper in your Gradle projects. When importing into IDEA, please choose "Use default gradle wrapper (recommended)".