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- Downloading Softwares Needed for Basic GWT Development
- Downloading GWT SDK
- Downloading Google App Engine
- Download Eclipse 4.3 – Kepler version
- Download GWT Plugin From GWT Main Page
- Other Download Method for GWT Plugin
- Issue with Latest Eclipse GWT Plugin
- Download FireFox 24 Fix – Use an Old version
- Plugin for IE and Google Chrome
- Video
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Downloading Softwares Needed for Basic GWT Development
o To save time and making the upcoming tutorial short
o I recommend we download and setup the download first
o I prefer to install a designated development tools space
Downloading GWT SDK
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o Go to http://www.gwtproject.org/
o Click [Downloads]
o Click the [Old Versions]
o We will not be using latest version of GWT – version 2.7.0
o Let’s download version 2.6.1
o Right-click:–> gwt-2.6.1.zip
o For the File name, enter our sandbox directory: H:\gwtsandbox\download
o For the File name:–> gwt-2.6.1.zip
Downloading Google App Engine
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o Go to http://www.gwtproject.org/
o Click [ App Engine SDK]
o Click [Downloads]
o Click the [Google App Engine SDK for Java]
o Right-click:–> appengine-java-sdk-1.9.17.zip
o For the File name, enter our sandbox
directory: H:\gwtsandbox\download
o For the File name:–> appengine-java-sdk-1.9.17.zip
o We will need it since we are building our development
environment from scratch
o Scratch, meaning without letting eclipse build it for us.
Download Eclipse 4.3 – Kepler version
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o Go to http://www.eclipse.org/kepler/
o Download [Eclipse Standard 4.3.2]
o Choose [Windows 64 bit] version, latest computer are 64 bit
o Save to : H:\gwtsandbox\download
Download GWT Plugin From GWT Main Page
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o Go to http://www.gwtproject.org/
o Click [Get Started]
o Click [Configure Eclipse]
o Go to https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/getting_started
o Click [Plugin for Eclipse 4.3]
o Click from the Install the Plugin page:
[Eclipse 4.3]
o Click [Downloading and Installing the Plugin]
o click [downloading and installing an archive of the update site]
o Click [the latest update site archive for Eclipse 4.3]
o Save to developement tools space: H:\gwtsandbox\download
Other Download Method for GWT Plugin
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o Here is the direct url: https://developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/getting_started
o Click [Downloading and Installing the Plugin]
o click [downloading and installing an archive of the update site]
o Click [the latest update site archive for Eclipse 4]
o Save to developement tools space: H:\gwtsandbox\download
Issue with Latest Eclipse GWT Plugin
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o Please go to http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=8561
See this:
“There won’t be a DevMode plugin for Firefox 27 onward,
Mozilla just killed DevMode in Firefox. Your choices are: SuperDevMode,
use Firefox 24 ESR (so it won’t break until the next ESR), use
another browser (but who knows when they’ll kill DevMode too?)”
Download FireFox 24 Fix – Use an Old version
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o The resolusion is to download an old version of firefox
o Go to this url to download versino 24
https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/24.0/win32/en-US/
o Download [Firefox Setup 24.0.exe]
o I prefer to install a designated development tools space
o Save to developement tools space: H:\gwtsandbox\download\
Plugin for IE and Google Chrome
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o You are on your own with IE, Google Chrome.
If you figure it out on these browser, send me the solution
o By the way, although we are intalling 24 for development,
our code will run on the new version. We need version 24 for
development.
o Next, let us “Extract Downloads and Move to Sandbox Binary Directory”
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