Maven 2 and Maven 1 support for GWT

NOTE/UPDATE: This project is deprecated/discontinued. New users should consider looking at the Codehaus gwt-maven-plugin (mojo.codehaus.org/gwt-maven-plugin/). The codehaus plugin merged in the code from this plugin (maven-googlewebtoolkit2-plugin) at one point and supports most of the same goals (and should be up to date). Fore more information see the mailing lists and various threads on the status and difference between the projects: http://groups.google.com/group/gwt-maven/browse_thread/thread/6ff5102700e6de3c.

Maven is a build and "project management" tool developed by the Apache Software Foundation. GWT-Maven is a "plug-in" that extends Maven to add GWT related support and goals.

There are multiple versions of GWT-Maven, a Maven 2.x version and a Maven 1.1 version.

Both versions have the same set of basic goals (which are optional):

Run the GWTShell (Hosted mode, both with embedded Tomcat and -noserver)
Run the GWTShell and connect to it with a debugger
Run the GWTCompiler
Run GWTTestCase and GWTTestSuite based tests
Generate I18N Constants and Messages interfaces
Creation of Web Application Archive (WAR) deployable files for GWT projects
Creation of Java Application Archive (JAR) files for GWT module/library projects
Automatically download and extract GWT on build machines