rule for running embedded tomcat or jetty in google eclipse plugin (GEP)

[Ladislav Gazo]

Hello,

I want to ask you how does Google Eclipse Plugin recognize whether to
run embedded Tomcat or Jetty? What is the rule for that? I am
experiencing various undeterministic (from my point of view)
situations where for one project it runs with Jetty and for another
Tomcat...

Thanks in advance

[Thomas Broyer]

AFAICT it looks for the presence of a "war" folder to determine if it
should use GWTShell (tomcat, uses <servlet/> in gwt.xml) or HostedMode
(jetty, uses war/ with servlets declared in war/WEB-INF/web.xml)
Note that this is determined at the time you add the GWT nature to
your project. If you later add or remove the "war" folder, you have to
uncheck GWT in your project's option, save the project, then enable
GWT again for the change to be taken into account.

[Ladislav Gazo]

thanks, it works the way you mentioned.