Introduction

Step-by-step mini-turorial given below show gwt-eclipse basic integration possibility. Generally the tutorial based on material from: Google Web Toolkit Getting Started Guide.

Participated software

• Eclipse version 3.3
• Google Web Toolkit 1.4.10

Tutorial

1. Create directory tst-gwt-eclipse.
2. Go to created directory and open console window.
3. Create project structure by command:

projectCreator -eclipse tst-gwt-eclipse

4. Add some gwt by command:

applicationCreator -eclipse tst-gwt-eclipse org.tst.gwt.client.HelloWorldEclipse

5. Import project into Eclipse.
1. Open Eclipse window Import.Select by context menu Import.
2. Select Import > From Existing Projects into Workspace, press Next button.
3. In window Import > Import Projects check Select root directory option, press Browse button and select tst-gwt-eclipse directory of just created project.
4. Press Finish and obtain the project in your current Eclipse workspace.
5. See Warning Classpath variable JUNIT_HOME in project 'gwt-test-eclipse' is deprecated: Use the JUnit library instead. Go to project properties Java Build Paths > Libraries, remove JUNIT_HOME node, add library JUnit 3. Warning has disappeared.
6. Launch application by Eclipse.
1. Select Run > Open Run Dialog > Java Application > HelloWorldEclipse
2. Press Run and see result in GWT hosted mode.

Source code

Resulting sources are available from the Subversion repository:

• By command line (you need to have a subversion client which can be downloaded from http://www.tigris.org):

svn checkout http://tst-gwt.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/tst-gwt-eclipse

After that application can be launched with the HelloWorldEclipse-shell.cmd.

• By Eclipse import (Subclipse, Eclipse plugin for Subversion, should be installed previously): open Eclipse and in context menu select Import > Checkout projects from SVN and further follow default options. Application can be launched with the Run > Open Run Dialog > Java Application > HelloWorldEclipse.

Resources

1. Google Web Toolkit Getting Started Guide