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Asked: 2026-05-18T01:54:54+00:00

Being a GWT newbie, I want to create GWT frontend and a PHP backend,

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Being a GWT newbie, I want to create GWT frontend and a PHP backend, communicating via JSON.
The GWT Getting started docs (http://code.google.com/intl/sv-SE/webtoolkit/doc/latest/tutorial/JSONphp.html) suggests

  1. compiling the GWT frontend, and
  2. moving it to an Apache/IIS server

Is there a way to avoid this roundtrip?
Could Jetty and a localhost Apache be set up to run simultaneously so that GWT frontend development (hosted mode) could be done in parallell with PHP backend dev?

Alternatively, could GWT Host mode be setup to use localhost Apache/Tomcat instead of Jetty?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes it’s possible. You have to do the following:

    • compile once the gwt project and copy it to the php server (you can compile directly to the php server -war option
    • run dev mode with the -noserver option (this way you won’t use the embedded jetty server)
    • make sure your php project loads the appropriate gwt host file
    • you should have the apache/IIS server running while in dev mode.
    • set the appropriate url in the gwt run configuration (if you use eclipse) to load the page with the hosted file on your apache server
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