GPE & maven config updating

[branflake2267]

Just a quick question, I haven't had to time to confirm yet, but I wanted to ask when using maven m2e with eclipse and your plugin here if the the maven update is clicked on and run from eclipse, does the GPE properly update the GWT run config from your plugin maven configurations attributes?

[branflake2267]

Just curious if you're pushing forward on this and if I should ask for tighter IDE integration?

[tbroyer]

I honestly have no idea what to do with Maven plugins. The more I read the CodeHaus plugin's code the more I think we should rewrite it from scratch; but this plugin's approach might not be the best either. I quite like what Buck does (on a suggestion by @skybrian; see facebook/buck#109), but there might be an impedance mismatch with Maven's way of working (on the other hand, that'd be not really different from what surefire/failsafe or even the maven-compiler-plugin are doing). See also https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MGWT-349#comment-353085 and #13

Note that I'm only talking here about the goals to compile and run the project, not the ones that generate gwt.xml files, or the way of bundling a mainModule manifest into JARs.

So, re. IDE integration, I'd wait a bit.

[branflake2267]

Sounds good, thanks for the update.

[branflake2267]

Just a note your plugin should integrate just fine sine the artifact names are the same and thats what the GPE and GWT Plugin fork are using. I can see your plugin has an advantage over the other maven plugin b/c it includes the lifecycle mapping. This is a annoying if someone puts the module the resources directory...