Last updated January 08, 2012 17:12, by ksfreitas

GWT4NB

The GWT4NB project aims to enable developers to take advantage of both: the superior support for creating Web Applications built into the NetBeans IDE and the power of GWT (Google Web Toolkit).

Getting Started

Ant
- Screencast "Importing and debugging the GWT Showcase sample" JEE 5, GWT 2.0, NetBeans 6.8, GWT4NB 2.6.18
- [obsolete since GWT4NB 2.6.22] Screencast "Creating and debugging a GWT application with 2 modules" JEE 5, GWT 2.0, NetBeans 6.8, GWT4NB 2.6.15
- Screencast "Creating and debugging an Java Enterprise Application with GWT" JEE 5, NetBeans 6.7, GWT4NB 2.6.9, GWT 2.0 ms2
- Screencast "Creating a reusable GWT library (module)" JEE 5, NetBeans 6.8, GWT4NB 2.6.20, GWT 2.0

Maven
- Screencast "Creating and debugging a Maven GWT application with NetBeans" JEE 5, GWT 1.7.0, NetBeans 6.8, GWT4NB 2.6.17, Maven 3.0-SNAPSHOT
- Screencast "Creating a Maven based Java Enterprise Application with GWT" JEE 5, NetBeans 6.8, GWT4NB 2.6.20, GWT 1.7, Maven 2.2.1

Other:
- Screencast "Creating and debugging a PHP project with GWT" PHP 5.2.13, GWT 2.0, NetBeans 6.8, Apache 2.2

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Features

Click here for the full list of the features with screenshots.

Using GWT with new or existing Web Projects
Running, debugging and testing Ant based projects
Maven support using the Codehaus Maven Plugin
Google App Engine support using the Google App Engine Maven Plugin ("new project" wizard only)
Assistance to deal with some code editing nuances such as creating RPC services efficiently
Code completion and wizards for GWT related file types

WARNING! Although built on top of the web application support as a web framework, GWT4NB does not support all the features implemented in NetBeans for normal web applications. For example, you cannot currently define multiple source folders or rename the build.xml

Active Contributors:

Cássio de Freitas e Silva (ksfreitas)

Retired or dormant contributors (no commits in the last 6 months)

Supported Platforms

JDK 1.5 and 1.6, GWT 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 2.0 and 2.1M1, NetBeans 6.7.1, 6.8 or 6.9 (older/unsupported releases)

Issue Tracking

Open issues
Closed issues
Open issues at NetBeans.org This query is inexact. Not all issues are bugs in GWT4NB.
Exception reports at NetBeans.org for the GWT4NB package prefix This query is inexact. Not all issues are bugs in GWT4NB.

If you would like to help, please vote for these issues

Maven GAE plugin issue 47: Jetty reload does not seem to work for get:run
NetBeans issue 187447: code completion stops working if a DOCTYPE is added
GAE issue 1685: deploy impl library in the central maven repository
NetBeans issue 186952: Cannot get exclusive access to project.properties
[Status was changed to AsDesigned, but thanks anyway] GWT issue 4607: Google eclipse plugin isn't open source
Maven GWT plugin issue 163: gwt:debug ends with java.lang.ClassFormatError with JEE 6 [Fixed in Maven GWT plugin 1.3] Maven GWT plugin issue 162: Support for server=n
Maven GWT plugin issue 166: javax.servlet classes are packaged
NetBeans issue 178987: Language embedding does not work
[Fixed in NetBeans 6.9] NetBeans issue 180001: Please add GWT4NB to the list of friends for Maven
[Fixed in GWT 2.0] GWT issue 3851: remove javax.servlet java files from gwt-user
[Status was changed to NotPlanned, but thanks anyway]
GWT issue 3787: NetBeans project files for GWT samples
[FIXED, thank you for voting] NetBeans issue 162445: Missing API for excluding .jars from a .war

Release Process

there is only one branch (stable) from which nbm files are produced regularly (weekly) and uploaded to the "Documents & Files" section. If no serious bugs are found in a release during a month, it will be uploaded to the beta auto update center and will be available through the default NetBeans update mechanism. See the list of update center requests for more details.

How to Build

Download NetBeans 6.8, checkout the sources from Subversion and open the project in NB.

Tip: on Windows 64-bit you have to either add run.args.extra=-J-server to your nbproject/private/private.properties or use 32-bit version of the JDK as there is no client JVM in 64-bit JDK 1.5

About NetBeans

The NetBeans IDE is a free, open-source Integrated Development Environment for software developers. The IDE runs on many platforms including Windows, Linux, Solaris, and the MacOS. It is easy to install and use straight out of the box. The NetBeans IDE provides developers with all the tools they need to create professional cross-platform desktop, enterprise, web and mobile applications.

About Google Web Toolkit

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications (...) easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatibilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript's lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.

GWT lets you avoid many of these headaches while offering your users the same dynamic, standards-compliant experience. You write your front end in the Java programming language, and the GWT compiler converts your Java classes to browser-compliant JavaScript and HTML.

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