is gwt-codeserver.jar artifact useless ?

[Cristiano]

Hello all,

I was asking myself when I should use the gwt-codeserver.jar

I'm not including it into my project but I can run Super Dev Mode anyway, so I've checked the content of the gwt-codeserver.jar to see what it does provide that is not provided by gwt-dev:

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ pwd

/Users/cristcost/dev/Open-Source/gwt-trunk/build/staging/gwt-0.0.0

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ unzip -l gwt-codeserver.jar

Archive:  gwt-codeserver.jar

  Length     Date   Time    Name

 --------    ----   ----    ----

        0  10-05-15 10:39   META-INF/

      157  10-05-15 10:39   META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/

     8425  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/CodeServer.class

[...omissis...]

     2492  06-30-15 09:52   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/stub.nocache.js

      122  10-05-15 10:39   META-INF/INDEX.LIST

 --------                   -------

   509150                   122 files

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ 

everything is inside the folder com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver , ok, let's compare with dev:

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ unzip -l gwt-dev.jar com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/*

Archive:  gwt-dev.jar

  Length     Date   Time    Name

 --------    ----   ----    ----

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/

     8425  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/CodeServer.class

[...omissis...]

     2492  06-30-15 09:52   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/stub.nocache.js

 --------                   -------

   508871                   115 files

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ 

and now let's filter more with more precision gwt-codeserver.jar to compare the differences:

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ unzip -l gwt-codeserver.jar com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/*

Archive:  gwt-codeserver.jar

  Length     Date   Time    Name

 --------    ----   ----    ----

        0  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/

     8425  10-05-15 10:39   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/CodeServer.class

[...omissis...]

     2492  06-30-15 09:52   com/google/gwt/dev/codeserver/stub.nocache.js

 --------                   -------

   508871                   115 files

Handwritten:gwt-0.0.0 cristcost$ 

same number of files, same size, so gwt-codeserver.jar I think this is not coincidence and then codeserver is completely included in gwt-dev.

So, is useless?

What is the purpose of it?

thanks,

Cristiano

[Thomas Broyer]

Oh my, I totally missed this: https://gwt-review.googlesource.com/#/q/Iaef14e17716e0f4784a466361db13930f887c996 (forgot actually, as I apparently commented on it)

So yes, gwt-codeserver is actually useless starting with GWT 2.7.0-rc1.

[Cristiano]

Ok,

thank you for the feedback!