README.md

gwt-hotdeployment

Description

Are you working with server side code in GWT's Development Mode and it's internal Jetty? Bored of reloading/redeploying by hand when you did change something in server code? Annoyed when did forget to reload?

gwt-hotdeployment enables automatic reloading of the web application context when compiled classes change.

License

Copyright 2013 Johannes Barop

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
limitations under the License.

Usage

1. Add gwt-hotdeployment as dependency to your Maven project:

   <dependency>
     <groupId>de.barop.gwt</groupId>
     <artifactId>gwt-hotdeployment</artifactId>
     <version>1.0</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
   </dependency>
   

2. Set gwt-hotdeployment's customized Jetty as server launcher

   <plugin>
     <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
     <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
     <configuration>
       <-- ... -->
       <server>de.barop.gwt.HotDeploymentJettyLauncher</server>
     </configuration>
   </plugin>
   

3. Have fun

   Don't forget that server side code has to be compiled. You may want to set up your develop environment to do so automaticly.

Demo

The repository contains a demo application gwt-hotdeployment-demo with which you can play around.