Re: GWT - dev environment ...

[Joseph Lust]

Nick,

I feel your corporate pain. I probably spend 30% of my dev time fighting the company's crippleware.

I've been running GWT on Linux for 7 months now with no issues [at home only :( ]

• Ubunutu x64 11.10 (I try to stay away from the latest release)
  
• Eclipse Indigo x64 (latest release)
• Oracle JDK x64 1.6.32 (don't use OpenJDK, gave me trouble)
• Chrome for debugging, or FF
• Make sure you use the -vm switch in eclipse.ini to point to the desired VM, and set JAVA_HOME for good measure.

However, I don't know how well an x64 processor, running a 32bit OS, and an x64 VM OS on that works. Might not be the fastest thing.

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,

Joseph

[Thomas Broyer]

On Friday, July 13, 2012 11:19:20 AM UTC+2, Nick Floros wrote:

Hi, 

 I have been evaluating GWT as a development framework in building a call handling application; maybe this is nuts idea but this is another story.

 It has been going kind of ok up to the point where my eclipse started running out of memory ; host os is Windows XP 32 bit. In addition corporate PC are full of anti-virus software which makes compilation and opening WindowsBuilder design a bit of a pain. 

 So have been considering using 64 bit LINUX; in an attempt to avoid all the av software.

 Does anybody out there has any recommendations about which version of LINUX 64 bit and eclipse go together with GWT and WindowBuilder ?

 Been trying (admittedly on a VM) 

- Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit + 64bit) + eclipse 3.7 no joy tried also eclipse 4.2 

- Mint Linux Cinnamon I get only a working environment but only with eclipse 3.6

- OpenSuse + eclipse 3.7 works when using standard GWT widgets. Any attempt to use GWT-EXT results in eclipse death.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

I'm using Ubuntu for a full year and never had any problem with it (Ubuntu 11.04, 11.10 then 12.04; Eclipse 3.6, 3.7 then 4.2).

I'm not using WindowBuilder / GWT Designer though. Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/list?can=2&q=designer+ubuntu (also try "designer linux" as search terms, and try search "all issues" too instead of just "open issues").

BTW, as Joseph said, I'm not sure a 64bit OS would really change anything here, and I'm pretty sure you'd better use 32bit OS if your host OS is 32bit (I thought it wasn't even possible to use a 64bit OS, probably depends which virtualization software you use).

[l.denardo]

I'm also on Ubuntu since 10.10 with regular upgrades.
Latest install is a 64 bit 12.04  + eclipse 3.7 indigo, no Unity (I prefer the traditional menus).

I don't use WindowBuilder and GWT Designer, still I recommend having 8GB RAM to work without hassle, 4GB tend to get slow. Don't even think about using Eclipse or NetBeans with 2GB RAM,
The problem isn't GWT per se, but the fact that Eclipse goes up to 1.2GB used RAM, Tomcat and GWT code server (I use an external server with the -noserver option in DevMode) 750MB each, so 4GB tend to be a little scarce.

Regards
Lorenzo

On Friday, July 13, 2012 11:19:20 AM UTC+2, Nick Floros wrote:

Hi, 

 I have been evaluating GWT as a development framework in building a call handling application; maybe this is nuts idea but this is another story.

 It has been going kind of ok up to the point where my eclipse started running out of memory ; host os is Windows XP 32 bit. In addition corporate PC are full of anti-virus software which makes compilation and opening WindowsBuilder design a bit of a pain. 

 So have been considering using 64 bit LINUX; in an attempt to avoid all the av software.

 Does anybody out there has any recommendations about which version of LINUX 64 bit and eclipse go together with GWT and WindowBuilder ?

 Been trying (admittedly on a VM) 

- Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit + 64bit) + eclipse 3.7 no joy tried also eclipse 4.2 

- Mint Linux Cinnamon I get only a working environment but only with eclipse 3.6

- OpenSuse + eclipse 3.7 works when using standard GWT widgets. Any attempt to use GWT-EXT results in eclipse death.

Any suggestions will be appreciated. 

Thanks

Nick

  

[g p]

I have been using Ubuntu x64 and GWT/Eclipse for three years at as my work dev environment.

Have upgraded both Ubuntu, Eclipse, all this time, to the latest versions. 

Never used the WindowBuilder (was not even free when I started this project, so had to stay away from it).

As previous messages said, the trick is the memory. At 2GB it was a pain to even open the PC. 

Upgraded to 4GB and now sit at an 8GB machine that gives me enough power to even run my app on Dev Mod.

At home I set up a Linux VM under VMWare with 3GB for testing purposes. I am able to do almost as much as with my work PC, but I had to make sure 2 CPUs are registered for that VM. 64bit OS as well and latest Eclipse ... following the releases of the newest stuff (galileo->helios->indigo->juno).

IMO windows are to be avoided for such type of development environments. 

Use a VM of them, if you need to test for IE clients (if you can avoid those as well you will be more mentally healthy at the end :D)

 

Cheers,

On Friday, July 13, 2012 11:19:20 AM UTC+2, Nick Floros wrote:

Hi, 

 I have been evaluating GWT as a development framework in building a call handling application; maybe this is nuts idea but this is another story.

 It has been going kind of ok up to the point where my eclipse started running out of memory ; host os is Windows XP 32 bit. In addition corporate PC are full of anti-virus software which makes compilation and opening WindowsBuilder design a bit of a pain. 

 So have been considering using 64 bit LINUX; in an attempt to avoid all the av software.

 Does anybody out there has any recommendations about which version of LINUX 64 bit and eclipse go together with GWT and WindowBuilder ?

 Been trying (admittedly on a VM) 

- Ubuntu 12.04 (32bit + 64bit) + eclipse 3.7 no joy tried also eclipse 4.2 

- Mint Linux Cinnamon I get only a working environment but only with eclipse 3.6

- OpenSuse + eclipse 3.7 works when using standard GWT widgets. Any attempt to use GWT-EXT results in eclipse death.

Any suggestions will be appreciated. 

Thanks

Nick

  

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[Nick Floros]

Guys, 

 Thanks for your comments; 

  I used VMs to simply test various LINUX distro with eclipse +GWT + WindowBuilder; need to include WindowBuilder / GWT Designer in an attempt to accelerate learning of UI building plus entice colleagues from  .net universe) will opt for ubuntu 10.10 

 Interestingly under mac osx juno + gwt designer work fine .. 

Nick