Re: GWT Developer Plugin no longer works with Chrome on Linux

On Saturday, July 5, 2014 11:29:10 PM UTC+2, Magnus wrote:

I never managed to get SuperDevMode work, because I don't understand it's basic architecture and I was missing some detailed tutorial. So SuperDevMode now is the only development mode with GWT and Eclipse then I finally need a good tutorial, where all the steps are explained in detail.

A few weeks ago I spent most of two days getting SDM to work for a client (together with the Eclipse plugin and a multi-module maven-based project), but in the end we could come to no other conclusion that it was borderline unusable.  While it works from cmdline with maven, that really doesn't give you anything. 

Once working, the new thing of debugging directly in the browser certainly seemed cool at first, until you realize that in most cases you would rather have the java-view on your data.  It's not much fun trying to drill down a javascriptobject-representation of your arraylist or hashmap, for instance, while your IDE's default 'toString'-view is exactly what you would want. 

I would even be okay without any debugging options, if only the time from "you make a change" till "you see the change" would remain a one-step process (like a reload in the browser), and I don't see why this cannot be done.  Why not simply use a web-filter on any *.js files (or other relevant files) to automaticly check if the corresponding class-files have been changed on disk and if so, then recompile the necessary gwt-parts.  If the new compiler becomes more incremental (as I've seen mentioned in some presentations), then that should even be pretty fast, but more importantly, it would be a one-step thing. 

So at work, we still use Firefox with the automatic updates disabled for GWT-dev in good old DevMode.  It's hardly a long term solution, so I'm really anxious to see what happens with 2.7. 

Regards,

Henrik

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