I can confirm absolutely that swapping the GWT settings does not alter
the gwt-servlet.jar file on 3 computers I've tested it on (all winxp).
For example, trying to roll back to GWT 1.7 will result in this error
when you attempt to launch hosted mode:
[ERROR] Invalid version number "2.0" passed to external.gwtOnLoad(),
expected "1.6"; your hosted mode bootstrap file may be out of date; if
you are using -noserver try recompiling and redeploying your app
This is again fixed by replacing the gwt-servlet.jar file.
Looks like this might be the plugin eclipse failing to do something,
but I don't see any errors in the logs.
I'd expect something like this, which is what you'd get if you set the
file to read only:
eclipse.buildId=M20090211-1700
java.version=1.6.0_13
java.vendor=Sun Microsystems Inc.
BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86, WS=win32, NL=en_US
Command-line arguments: -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86
Error
Sat Oct 17 13:45:41 WST 2009
Unexpected Exception
org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.ResourceException: Problems
encountered while deleting resources.
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.delete(Resource.java:
724)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.Resource.delete(Resource.java:
670)
at com.google.gdt.eclipse.core.sdk.UpdateWebInfFolderCommand.execute
(UpdateWebInfFolderCommand.java:65)
at com.google.gdt.eclipse.core.sdk.UpdateProjectSdkCommand.execute
(UpdateProjectSdkCommand.java:67)
at
com.google.gwt.eclipse.core.properties.ui.GWTProjectPropertyPage.addGWT
(GWTProjectPropertyPage.java:186)
at
com.google.gwt.eclipse.core.properties.ui.GWTProjectPropertyPage.saveProjectProperties
(GWTProjectPropertyPage.java:132)
at com.google.gdt.eclipse.core.ui.AbstractProjectPropertyPage.performOk
(AbstractProjectPropertyPage.java:78)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$13.run
(PreferenceDialog.java:931)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:37)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.run(Platform.java:880)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.JFaceUtil$1.run(JFaceUtil.java:48)
at org.eclipse.jface.util.SafeRunnable.run(SafeRunnable.java:175)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.okPressed
(PreferenceDialog.java:911)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.FilteredPreferenceDialog.okPressed
(FilteredPreferenceDialog.java:456)
at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.buttonPressed
(PreferenceDialog.java:233)
at org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.Dialog$2.widgetSelected(Dialog.java:624)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.TypedListener.handleEvent
(TypedListener.java:228)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1003)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:
3823)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3422)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.runEventLoop(Window.java:825)
at org.eclipse.jface.window.Window.open(Window.java:801)
at
com.google.gdt.eclipse.core.actions.AbstractProjectPropertiesAction.run
(AbstractProjectPropertiesAction.java:56)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.PluginAction.runWithEvent(PluginAction.java:
251)
at
org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.handleWidgetSelection
(ActionContributionItem.java:583)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem.access$2
(ActionContributionItem.java:500)
at org.eclipse.jface.action.ActionContributionItem$5.handleEvent
(ActionContributionItem.java:411)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.EventTable.sendEvent(EventTable.java:84)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Widget.sendEvent(Widget.java:1003)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runDeferredEvents(Display.java:
3823)
at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3422)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runEventLoop(Workbench.java:2384)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.runUI(Workbench.java:2348)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.access$4(Workbench.java:2200)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$5.run(Workbench.java:495)
at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault
(Realm.java:288)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench
(Workbench.java:490)
at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:
149)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start
(IDEApplication.java:113)
at org.eclipse.equinox.internal.app.EclipseAppHandle.run
(EclipseAppHandle.java:193)
at
org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.runApplication
(EclipseAppLauncher.java:110)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.internal.adaptor.EclipseAppLauncher.start
(EclipseAppLauncher.java:79)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
(EclipseStarter.java:386)
at org.eclipse.core.runtime.adaptor.EclipseStarter.run
(EclipseStarter.java:179)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.invokeFramework(Main.java:549)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.basicRun(Main.java:504)
at org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.run(Main.java:1236)
Contains: Could not delete 'C:\Workspace\UnitTest\war\WEB-INF\lib\gwt-
servlet.jar'.
The issue you've mentioned doesn't seem to be directly related
(although it is also an issue when you swap over to 2.0 ms 1);
cleaning the project (removing all files) and rebuilding fixes any
issues with the nocache.js files in the project for me... but I guess
that's what I'd expect to have to do once I change libraries...