Using the Archetype

Using the archetype is the simpliest way to get a clean, ready for development GWT application. It is comparable to the application created wy SDK webAppCreator with the ''-maven'' option, with some tweaks to nicelly integrate with Google Eclipse and M2Eclipse plugins.

Using the Archetype

Use it as you would any other Maven archetype to create a template/stub project.

Due to an archetype maven project issue ARCHETYPE-351 you must add the archetype repository used via the following parameter

 -DarchetypeRepository=repo1.maven.org

The full command line until fix of archetype issue is :

 mvn archetype:generate \
   -DarchetypeRepository=repo1.maven.org \
   -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo \
   -DarchetypeArtifactId=gwt-maven-plugin \
   -DarchetypeVersion=2.4.0

The generated project can then be imported as "existing project" into Eclipse, or if you don't like Eclipse you can use another IDE and run command-line maven to launch GWT hoste mode with ''mvn gwt:run''.

Note: don't run mvn archetype:create as the plugin uses archetype 2.0 descriptor.

Layout

The generated project layout looks like following figure :

It uses M2Eclipse for classpath management and Google Eclipse Plugin for nice GWT support inside Eclipse.

Note before importing your project you must configure M2eclipse as it. See box : Goals to run on project import.