Re: [POLL] Maven project layout, what to "standardize"?

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:47 PM, dparish <dparish@gmail.com> wrote:

I think a major goal should be to cooperate with other container plugins, specifically Jetty.  I've been struggling with getting the Jetty plugin to fully cooperate w/ the gwt plugin and am astounded at how hard it is to:

1. Get my server code to be updated without a server restart (if the compiled code goes in WEB-INF/classes, just bouncing the webapp is enough.

That's nothing to do with GWT right?

 

2. Running in dev mode w/o having to do a compile to get the code in the right place in the exploded src/main/webapp directory

compile into src/main/webapp !?!?!?

 

3. Start the jetty container w/ also doing a gwt compile (it should just compile the server side code)

mvn -Dgwt.compiler.skip jetty:whatever ?

But it suggests you have your client and server code in the same Maven module, which is wrong, to begin with.

Actually, the main issues I've got with the jetty-maven-plugin are that it doesn't work well with multi-module projects. the tomcat7-maven-plugin worked much better for me (either that or running Jetty standalone, configured with extraClasspath to pick classes from all dependent projects).

See https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/JETTY-1517?focusedCommentId=306630&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#comment-306630 and https://github.com/tbroyer/gwt-maven-archetypes/pull/13

I'd like to see an option in the GWT plugin where it runs much like it does with the GWT embedded jetty but with the jetty maven plugin instead.  

Why do I want the jetty plugin instead of the embedded jetty:

1. I get a later version of Jetty

2. I can customize Jetty more easily (authentication, jdbc, etc)

3. I can control the startup of Jetty more easily

4. I can use the same mvn to run and control a production version of Jetty

Let's be clear, there's no reason to use the embedded server, apart for convenience when you have very few needs wrt the servlet environment.

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Thomas Broyer
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