GWT Gradle Plugin

This plugin makes it easy to build projects using GWT. It provides several tasks to support the development and configures several aspects of your project to work with GWT automatically.

Among other things, the plugin provides these features:

• Running the GWT compiler and automatic inclusion of the compiled stuff in your *.war file
• Starting GWT Dev Mode
• Support for Super Dev Mode (GWT 2.5+)
• Configuration of different GWT modules for development and production
• GWT specific configuration of Eclipse projects

Resources

• Version history
• Documentation
• JavaDocs

Examples

Several example projects can be found in /examples.

Quickstart

This will guide you through the steps needed to set up gwt-gradle-plugin for a GWT web application project using Maven/Gradle standard layout. To learn about different scenarios or more specific configuration needs, please refer to the Documentation

Plugin dependency

As this is not a core Gradle plugin, you have to ensure, that Gradle knows how to get the plugin. Do do this, add the following lines to your build.gradle:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url 'https://github.com/steffenschaefer/gwt-gradle-plugin/raw/maven-repo/'
        }
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath 'de.richsource.gradle.plugins:gwt-gradle-plugin:0.3'
    }
}

Basic web application setup

Supposed you already applied the gradle "war" plugin to your project, you have to also apply the "gwt" plugin:

apply plugin: 'war'
apply plugin: 'gwt'

Now you have to configure the GWT modules to compile into your web application:

gwt {
    modules '<YOUR-GWT-MODULE>'
}

If you want to use automatically configured GWT dependencies (gwt-dev, gwt-user, ...) you have to extend the configuration to set the desired GWT version:

gwt {
    gwtVersion='2.5.1'
    modules '<YOUR-GWT-MODULE>'
}