GWT on Mac with Java 6?

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tomoucb

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Apr 10, 2008, 3:34:58 PM4/10/08

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Hi folks,

I know the GWT 1.5 Milestones are just now supporting Java 5, but the
Kuali Student Services System requires Java 6 and it looks like the
prebuilt jnilibs (at least libgwt-ll.jnilib) don't work with Java 6 on
the Mac.

Is there any way to get the source to build the prebuilt libs? Or
does anyone have any other suggestions (other than running Linux or
Windows on our Macs!)?

Thanks!

Tom O'Brien
UC Berkeley/Kuali Student Services System
http://www.kuali.org/communities/ks/

Jason Essington

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Apr 10, 2008, 5:20:35 PM4/10/08

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just specify java5 when you start the GWTShell or GWTCompiler ... OS X
has 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 installed.

The issue is that GWT doesn't appear to play well with 64bit JVMs
(read about all the problems people were having on 64 bit linux)

the server side bits should be happy in java6, it is just the compiler
that doesn't behave, so specify the 1.5 jvm for compiling (easy enough
to do in eclipse) and deploy to whatever.