Question

I have started Gwt last week. And I was trying to create application without using sample app. So initially i have typed following line in html file(Application Name-loginAppGwt, package- LoginAppGwt)

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="LoginAppGwt/LoginAppGwt.nocache.js"></script>

but it was not loading the gwt module. When i changed it to

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="loginAppGwt/loginAppGwt.nocache.js"></script>

It was working fine.
But in one of the application which i have created using sample application of gwt, there was written(application name- testingApp, packagename- test)

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="testingapp/testingapp.nocache.js"></script>

So , my doubt is where this name comes from like in my application loginAppGwt was correct but in sample application testingapp was correct??
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Module name can be manipulated via <module rename-to="newname">. Then the path would be newname/newname.nocache.js

Check if your example had something similar in it’s module descriptor.

Update:

Loading of JS scripts is affected by filesystem case-sensitivity because scripts are loaded from files. However, GWT-RPC is handled by servlets and is always case sensitive. This is important because, GWT-RPC urls are prepended with package name which seems to be derived from first part of script name in a host file (I just tested this).

So while the main script would be loaded on case-insensitive filesystems regardless of the script name case, the GWT RPC would only work if package names are equal.