I've certainly used eclipse's debugger to step through code in the client, but I'm not sure if I ever had a fast (or instant) change-run loop working. Most of the work I did was tests (or well tested code), and they ran in eclipse just fine.
-J On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Thomas Wrobel <darkfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > -sigh- > Sadly I was wrong. While the client/server are all functional, the GWT > Development mode isnt going anything. It loads the URL, but has no > communication whatsoever. The normal realtime updates doesn't work. Even > the most trivial client change makes no difference without a real compile. > In fact, closing the red GWT Development popup window doesnt even stop the > client working -clearly its doing nothing beyond launching it. > > ** Can anyone on this list confirm if the GWT for Waves client has ever > worked for realtime(ish)development ? ** > > Am I pursuing something that no one has got working? > That is, the cycle of "run">>"look at client in browser">>"make client code > changes">>"refresh browser">>"see changes" > > The notes in the build.xml seem to indicate it should ""Runs the hosted > mode server, for debugging the GWT > client in a JVM." implies running via Java, not java, not javascript. > That should be realtime. > > > also; > > On 20 December 2013 02:15, Frank R. <renfeng...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> You don't need this at all. >> >> <arg line="-startupUrl http://localhost:9898"/> >> >> >> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Yuri Z <vega...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Try to add the startupUrl like this: >> > >> > <target name="hosted-gwt" depends="compile" >> > description="Runs the hosted mode server, for debugging the GWT >> > client in a JVM."> >> > <java failonerror="true" fork="true" >> > classname="com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode"> >> > <classpath> >> > <pathelement location="${src.dir}"/> >> > <pathelement location="${gen.dir}/messages"/> >> > <path refid="libpath"/> >> > </classpath> >> > <jvmarg value="-Xmx512M"/> >> > <jvmarg value="-ea"/> >> > <jvmarg >> > >> > >> value="-agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8001"/> >> > <arg value="-noserver" /> >> > <arg line="-bindAddress 0.0.0.0" /> >> > <arg line="${gwt.args}"/> >> > <arg line="-startupUrl http://localhost:9898"/> >> > <arg value="org.waveprotocol.box.webclient.WebClientProd"/> >> > >> > >> >> > > I just tested this again without <arg line="-startupUrl > http://localhost:9898"/>, and it definitely doesn't connect. > "No startup URLs supplied and no plausible ones found -- use -startupUrl" > in the GWT Development popup window. > > Thanks as always for all the help, > Thomas
