Question

How can I configure the embedded Jetty that comes with GWT so that when I click the run button in Eclipse, my server application can access a postgresql database?

Answer 1

Turned out that what I needed to do was to run the app on a Tomcat server on a different host (because the database I needed was too hard to bring over to the development machine for testing). I ended up using “ant war && scp Navaid.war foo:/www/tomcat/webapps/” to deploy the server side, and I modified the Eclipse run configuration for the project to

• unclick the “Run built-in server” on the “Main” tab

• add the following options to “Program Arguments” on the “Arguments” tab

  -noserver -whitelist “^http[:][/][/]foo[.]bar[.]com[:]8080”

I also managed to modify build.xml so that “ant hosted” will run the hosted mode with the remote server. I found the “hosted” target, and the <arg> line that looks like:

<arg value="-startupUrl"/>

and added the following line before it:

<arg value="-noserver"/>

and changed the line after it from

<arg value="Navaid.html"/>

to

<arg value="http://foo.bar.com:8080/Navaid/Navaid.html"/>