The main goal of this project is to develop a maven plugin wich include the latest version of the GWT compiler .

Why trying to include the GWTCompiler into the plugin ?

- The compiler distribution is os specific and bundled into the Google Web toolkit distro .

There 's no way actually to get the compiler as a library and include it into the dependencies of a maven plugin or a maven build .

This is not a problem if your maven project is not a part of a continuous integration project. But If you try to use continium for example , you will not be abble to build your sources without installing the GWT distro on the server .

Why Another Maven Gwt Plugin ?

- When you develop GWT Widget libraries with maven , you need to include them into your pom dependencies .

This is a fact that no maven plugin can actually do it correctly ....

Futures :

- No user settings needed in the maven configuration .

- Could be used in a continuous integration build without configuration on the server .

- Correct handle of GWT compiler errors .( These errors are transmitted to the maven framework ) .

- Correct handle of gwt libraries dependencies .

- Run OUT OF THE BOX ...