Which Maven (2) plugin to use with GWT 1.6?

Question

There seems to be quite a bit of confusion regarding Maven’s integration with GWT 1.6 , as Google has changed the layout to the "blown war" format. Which plugin are you using? Are there any goals for posting / compiling? Does it work "in place", writing output to src/main/webapp/WEB-INF , or does it use an external directory? (I'm not a fan when GWT-generated output appears in my source tree).

If you have something working, POM fragments will also be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

Here's an article on how to use GWT 1.6, the Google Eclipse plugin, maven 2, and gwt-maven-plugin all together.

Answer 2

I had this by downloading the GWT Maven2 Starter App here and then changing the pom to use GWT 1.6.4, and it just seemed to work.

Answer 3

I updated gwt-maven2-starter-app to use GWT 1.6.x and codehaus maven-gwt-plugin. Their job is to deviate from the maven convention and use the standard / military 1.6 directory (instead of src / main / webapp) for the webapp and GWT artifacts generated output (which you must add to the .svnignore).