GWT Plugin For Eclipse; Ubuntu 64-Bit; XULRunner Issue

[KGD]

Hello,

   I have been developing an app with GWT and have recently moved my development platform to a 64-bit Dell Poweredge running Ubuntu 15.10.  I installed Eclipse Mars. 1 Release (4.51) and downloaded and installed the GWT Plugin and SDK.  When I attempt to open the GWT Designer, I initially received a message stating that I did not have a compatible version of XULRunner installed.  I finally found what was listed as a compatible version at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/nightly/2012/03/2012-03-02-03-32-11-mozilla-1.9.2/xulrunner-1.9.2.28pre.en-US.linux-x86_64.tar.bz2. and installed it.  Now, I no longer get the error message but GWT Designer still does not open.  Rather, it freezes with a dialog box that states 'initializing.'  From the log, it appears that it starts the local http server.  At this point, I am dead in the water.  I don't see anything else in the logs that indicate what the problem is.

  I would greatly appreciate any feedback or direction on resolving this issue.  My code compiles correctly but GWT Designer simply will not load.  

Thanks,

KGD

[KGD]

All,

        I continued to search and it appears that the GWT Designer functionality doesn't work with GWT 2.6.0 but does work with GWT 2.6.1 but then fails with GWT 2.7.0.  

       Is the GWT 2.7.0 release note: "GWT Designer doesn’t work with 2.7 and is no longer supported." accurate?  If so, is there any alternative to allow the continued use of GWT but with some other GUI for layout management?

Thanks,

KGD

[Gilberto]

Well, GWT Designer was an attempt to bring the old Swing/AWT development feel to GWT, but the time has passed and now everyone just use HTML/CSS directly - which is far better when you have web designers on your team.

That said, in my opinion, you should use UiBinder for UI, and to be able to fast switch to GWT when 3.0 comes, try to use pure HTML elements as much as you can.

The default Widgets from GWT are too basic (and most of the times not mobile-friendly), so you probably should use a 3rd-party framework with more advanced components. Take a look at Vaadin and GXT, but if you want to stay on pure GWT, gwt-material project is a good way to go.

[Boris Brudnoy]

gwt-bootstrap team is also doing a great job:

https://github.com/gwtbootstrap3/gwtbootstrap3

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[Jens]

       Is the GWT 2.7.0 release note: "GWT Designer doesn’t work with 2.7 and is no longer supported." accurate? 

Yes thats correct. No one maintains GWT Designer and thus it has become incompatible to GWT 2.7+. However the source is now available and you could patch it if you really want to use it: https://github.com/gwt-plugins/gwt-designer

Personally I just use UiBinder directly.

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