devops-nagarro / hellogwt

Sample application to develop with Maven, Spring, GWT, Hibernate and NetBeans.

This project is a step-by-step Spring-GWT tutorial. It is inspired from the article written by Alex Tretyakov on 2012-08-30 Spring and GWT tutorial. Part 5 - UiBinder.

The project was created as a "Maven Project" with GWT cli-tool. Then files from hellogwt were added, commented and modified to run with SQLite instead of MySQL.

Steps

These are the steps:

1. Spring Configuration
2. Adding GWT
3. GWT RPC services
4. MyBatis and SQLite
5. UIBinder
6. Using a SplitLayoutPanel
7. Internationalisation
8. Hibernate and H2 (keeping MyBatis and SQLite in the configuration)
9. JUnit tests
10. GWT unit tests

Next steps:

11. Use of GXT

Run the application

In command line

1. Build the project by executing mvn clean install command. Now we have application war-file.
2. If Tomcat is running, stop/kill it. ~/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.43/bin/shutdown.sh
3. Go to the tomcat installation folder
4. Delete the temp and work folders. They only contain temporary files.
5. Copy the war file target/hellogwt.war to <tomcat>/webapps/ folder.
6. Start the server ~/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.43/bin/startup.sh.
7. Go to http://localhost:8080/hellogwt/.

If you have configured $HOME/.m2/settings.xml with a server called Tomcat6:

1. If Tomcat is not running, start it. ~/bin/apache-tomcat-6.0.43/bin/startup.sh
2. Build and deploy the project by executing mvn tomcat6:deploy command. You can use mvn tomcat6:redeploy if the war was deployed.
3. Go to http://localhost:8080/hellogwt/.

In Eclipse

You need to install those plug-ins:

• Eclipse Git Team Provider

Right-click on project and click on Run As > Run on Server.

In NetBeans

You need to install those plugins:

• GWT4NB
• JavaEE Base
• Maven

Click on Run project or type F6.

Development

In Maven

• mvn compile only compiles Java sources.
• mvn gwt:compile only compiles GWT module and writes extras.
• mvn test run JUnit tests.
• mvn gwt:test run GWT unit tests.

In NetBeans

1. Define breakpoints if needed.
2. Click on Debug Project or type Ctrl+F5.
3. In the project custom menu, click on Run GWT code server.
4. Visit the url said by the code server to install the bookmarklet.

• To run JUnit tests, in the project menu, click on Test.
• To run GWT unit tests, in the project custom menu, click on Run GWT unit tests.

License

The source code is licensed under Apache License 2.0.