Question

I have a maven multi-module project. One of this modules (compiled as .jar) contains only domain objects, which will be used at client and server sides (I add this .jar as dependency to other my modules).

I know that GWT module, where will be used objects from shared .jar, must also have source files for successful compilation. So I tried to add to my pom.xml both:

        <resources> 
            <resource>
              <directory>src/main/java/<path></directory> 
              <includes> 
                <include>**/*.java</include> 
                <include>**/*.gwt.xml</include> 
              </includes> 
            </resource> 
        </resources>  

and

 <plugin>
    <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
    <artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
    <versionRange>[${gwt.version}]</versionRange>
    <goals>
        <goal>resources</goal>
    </goals>
 <plugin>

But resulting .jar don’t contain GWT module source (i.e gwt.xml). All sources of domain classes are added as well (at root directory of .jar), but ModuleName.gwt.xml not.

Where is problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

If your .gwt.xml file is in src/main/resources/ then it won’t get copied if you specify src/main/java/ as the resource path…

You should probably omit the <resource> section and let the GWT plugin include the source in the jar or at least have two sections, one for the .gwt.xml file (src/main/resources or where you put it) and one for the source code (as you have it now).

Cheers,