NOTE: The way we develop GWT apps has changed since this application was developed.
This is the gwt "contacts" tutorial application from google. The following enhancements have been made;
- Upgrade to use the JDK logging emulation layer
- Integrate "GWT RPC XSRF protection" to avoid Cross-Site Request Forgery
- Use Google Gin as the client-side dependency injection framework
- Converted to use the Activities & Places Framework for managing bookmarking inside the application, and to enable easy code splitting.
- Split into multiple code modules (server, client and shared) to help in modularizing the code base.
- Integration of checkstyle rules to help enforce good styles.
- Conversion of the server-side to use EJBs for the service layer and JPA for the persistence layer.
- Convert to using Domgen to generate service/event/entity boilerplate.
- Conversion to using a maven-style source code layout and the Buildr tool to automate the builds.
- Integration with the Intellij IDEA IDE added.
-
Download the right version of ruby.
-
Install the ruby dependencies. (i.e. "gem install bundler && bundler install")
-
Download dependencies and source for dependencies. Note: It is important to download source as the GWT compiler actually uses the source from dependencies to generate javascript. e.g. "buildr artifacts artifacts:sources"
-
Install the GWT and GlassFish Integration plugins into IDEA
-
Generate IDEA project files. e.g. "buildr idea"
-
Download and install GlassFish 3.1.2.2 or later.
-
Setup GlassFish configuration in IDEA and make sure it deploys the contacts artifact when it starts up.
-
Learn and perform magic.