Setup and configuration

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...