IMO, the loss of DevMode is a huge problem for GWT, I understand SuperDevMode is its replacement but unfortunately that is no where near a true replacement at least not yet.
It's a bit hard to explain unless you have used both approaches on a large project but the best way I can think of to explain it is that in SuperDevMode you see an 'opaque' version of your source in the browser. So yes you can 'see' your Java source in the browser and you can debug it...but that's about it. E.g. you get to have an image or a copy of your source in the browser. However that's all you get in SuperDevMode what you don't get is the ability to find and edit your source code. I have an app with hundreds of classes in the client side, there are no tools like my IDE has for finding the code i want to jump to so I can inspect, set break points, edit code, etc.
So with SuperDevMode everything has to be done twice, you can debug in the browser (but navigating the code is very painful) but then when you need to make changes you need to re-navigate the code over in the IDE, edit the code, and re-deploy. So in effect the code in the browser is an image of the real code...you can't do anything with it really.
I find SuperDevMode to be incredibly inefficient in developing GWT applications, especially large ones where the strength of GWT is evident. SuperDevMode might be fine for later stages of development, e.g. testing stages where you don't need to make large code changes but rather just need to fine tune what GWT generated but it's inadequate for development stages. Personally I'm keeping an an old version of Firefox so that I can continue to use DevMode.
Please let me know if I'm missing something here or are other approaches.
-Dave
On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Leejjon <leejjon@gmail.com> wrote:
There's a developer version of Firefox coming out:
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/03/the-first-browser-dedicated-to-developers-is-coming/
Maybe we can ask Mozilla to export the C++ symbols in this developer version, so the GWT dev plugin can work on this developer version of Firefox.
Op dinsdag 4 februari 2014 01:01:41 UTC+1 schreef Brian Slesinsky:Mozilla has stopped exporting some C++ symbols that the Firefox plugin relies on [1]. Therefore it's not possible to support Development Mode in any new versions of Firefox starting with 27.As a workaround, I am doing one last release to get the plugin working again with Firefox 24.2 (and hopefully newer point releases on the ESR track). If you wish to continue to use Development Mode on Firefox, you will need to download this version from Mozilla [2]. For more details see the issue tracker [3].Long-term, the plan is to improve Super Dev Mode.I apologize for the late notice; when I said at GWT.create that Firefox could stop working with any release, I didn't expect it to be the next one.- Brian--
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