How can I get the "Expenses" sample up and running?

[Warren Tang]

I have trouble to run the "Expenses" sample in GWT's samples folder. The sample appeared in Google I/O sessions a few times.

I'm not familiar with App Engine, but this is what I've done:

1. create an new Eclipse project and then overwrite the src and war with those from the Expenses sample.
2. add App Engine support and specified the application id/name I got by creating a new application in appengine.google.com.
3. compile "LoadExpensesDB.gwt.xml" (which I assume is used to fill appengine with some sample data.).The permunations completed but at the beginning of the log their are some errors:
   Compiling module com.google.gwt.sample.expenses.LoadExpensesDB
      Validating newly compiled units
         [ERROR] Errors in 'file:/D:/work/learning/gwt/Expenses/java/com/google/gwt/sample/expenses/shared/EmployeeProxy.java'
            [ERROR] Line 25: com.google.gwt.sample.expenses.server.domain.Employee cannot be resolved to a type
         [ERROR] Errors in 'file:/D:/work/learning/gwt/Expenses/java/com/google/gwt/sample/expenses/shared/EmployeeRequest.java'
            [ERROR] Line 22: The import com.google.gwt.sample.expenses.server.domain.Employee cannot be resolved
            [ERROR] Line 29: Employee cannot be resolved to a type
   ... ...
   
4. When I run the module I got
      HTTP ERROR: 503  SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE
   The log in hosted getty says:
   00:00:00.008 [WARN] failed GaeAuthFilter
   javax.servlet.UnavailableException: com.google.gwt.sample.gaerequest.server.GaeAuthFilter    
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Holder.doStart(Holder.java:79)    
     at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doStart(FilterHolder.java:81)

Regards,
Warren

[David Chandler]

The Expenses sample is designed to be used with Maven. See
README-MAVEN.txt in the samples/expenses folder and follow
instructions there.

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[Warren Tang]

Hi David,

I'm really thankful for your patience for answering this starter's question. 

I imported the project into eclipse from according to the readme file. Maven had an issue finding the gwt-servlet2.2.jar. I fixed it by changing the GWT version to 2.3.0 in pom.xml, and adding GWT SDK and Appengine SDK to the classpath. The project was then built successfully. But when I run it in the dev mode, the following error appears in eclipse's console view:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.mortbay.thread.Timeout.<init>(Ljava/lang/Object;)V

at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectorManager$SelectSet.<init>(SelectorManager.java:306)

at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectorManager.doStart(SelectorManager.java:223)

at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)

at org.mortbay.jetty.nio.SelectChannelConnector.doStart(SelectChannelConnector.java:303)

at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)

at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.doStart(Server.java:233)

at org.mortbay.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:39)

at com.google.gwt.dev.shell.jetty.JettyLauncher.start(JettyLauncher.java:667)

at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.doStartUpServer(DevMode.java:500)

at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.startUp(DevModeBase.java:1055)

at com.google.gwt.dev.DevModeBase.run(DevModeBase.java:804)

at com.google.gwt.dev.DevMode.main(DevMode.java:309)

I've no idea what it means. 

Besides, it should need my appengine credentials in order to fill data into appengine, right? How can I configure it? 

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[Warren Tang]

I'm using Windows 7 64bit / Eclipse 3.7 64bit / Latest SDKs.

[Warren Tang]

It works now though I don't know why.