Hot deploy on Tomcat

[yca]

Hello,

2 questions related to hot deployment on Tomcat with Eclipse and (perhaps) GWT Designer:

1.
(Hosted Tomcat)
I developped a Remote Service. I can call it from the Hosted Browser (Run...GWT Application form GWT Designer). However, when changing the implementation of the RemoteServiceImpl, changes are not automatically deployed on the Hosted Tomcat. Refreshing the Hosted Browser is not enough.

Is there a way to avoid the restart of the Hosted Shell?
(not sure if it is due to my GWT Designer configuration or not).

2.
(stand-alone Tomcat)
I have an eclipse Dynamic Web Project where I hot deploy my application. Everything is fine except that I have to compile the client Java files to Javascript. That is normal. However, is there a way to make the Javascript builds by GWT Designer, without making a War and dezipping the needed files (perhaps by modifying the Ant file)? Cytal plug-in offers this choice (.war or all flat files) but it would be nice to have it in GWT Designer as well, since for the rest, GWT Designer seems beautiful. Making an automatic build of the changed files only would be perfect.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Yves.

[Konstantin.Scheglov]

Hello,

2 questions related to hot deployment on Tomcat with Eclipse and (perhaps) GWT Designer:

1.
(Hosted Tomcat)
I developped a Remote Service. I can call it from the Hosted Browser (Run...GWT Application form GWT Designer). However, when changing the implementation of the RemoteServiceImpl, changes are not automatically deployed on the Hosted Tomcat. Refreshing the Hosted Browser is not enough.

Is there a way to avoid the restart of the Hosted Shell?
(not sure if it is due to my GWT Designer configuration or not).

Use "debug" instead of "run".
On Java 1.4 and higher Eclipse can perform so named "hot code replace". It works for for both client and server parts, event "impl" of remote services.

2.
(stand-alone Tomcat)
I have an eclipse Dynamic Web Project where I hot deploy my application. Everything is fine except that I have to compile the client Java files to Javascript. That is normal. However, is there a way to make the Javascript builds by GWT Designer, without making a War and dezipping the needed files (perhaps by modifying the Ant file)? Cytal plug-in offers this choice (.war or all flat files) but it would be nice to have it in GWT Designer as well, since for the rest, GWT Designer seems beautiful. Making an automatic build of the changed files only would be perfect.

Thanks a lot for your help,

Yves.

You can get generated build.xml and tweak it to compile Java to JavaScript only, and target to the folder you need.

Also note that incremental compilation Java to JavaScript is not possible because:

1. compilation is process that takes much of time;
2. because of heavy optimizations that are performed by GWT compiler it requires to see and work with FULL source.

[Eric Clayberg]

Did this solve yoru problem?

[yca]

Konstantin,

Thanks for your fast and correct answers.

1. Debug mode indeed do a 'hot code replace'. Now it works. Tx.

2. Changing the generated Ant file was indeed one of my ideas. Didn't try it yet since Cytal do it for free for me. Anyway, it is a detail. For the rest I am very happy with your tool.

Thanks a lot,

Yves.

[Eric Clayberg]

Specifically, what does Cytal do fir free?