Regarding GWT Super Dev Mode

[Raghu Mittal]

Hi devs,

Lately, Google Developer Plugin had been deprecated and it hasn't been working with Firefox for some time. I was running it on Chrome but recently when I updated my system, I realized that the latest Chrome had also dropped support for the Google Dev plugin.

So I thought of trying out Super Dev Mode (a replacement for Google Dev Plugin). I converted a small project that we had done in GWT and it turned out to be quite easy. One thing that is slightly tricky is that we can no longer do the in-IDE debugging. Super Dev Mode has something called Source maps which allows debugging within the browser. Its not as good as the in-IDE debugging that we are used to in eclipse, but at-least it works.

I haven't yet tried converting the OXD webapp project to Super Dev Mode and I would like to know if somebody has done that. What are your experiences with Super Dev Mode?

Regards,

Raghu

[Daniel Kayiwa]

From all this and what i have seen and heard from other groups, my advice is that, do not invest any more resources into GWT!!! Only fix bugs, and add very small features. But for new things just forget it.

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[Raghu Mittal]

Hi Daniel,

Thanks for the response. I can see where you are coming from. I will also probably not use GWT for any new projects. But our existing projects, particularly webapp project in OXD is on GWT, and there are many people who are working on the same. So I am wondering what other people are doing to run the webapp code.

Raghu

[Ronald Kayondo]

I agree GWT is such big pain to work with. I personally still use Firefox 24.4.0 with GWT Developer Plugin 1.26.2. This is the only combo I found that worked for me. I also disabled auto updates in firefox so that this plugin never gets disabled by firefox.

I tried chrome about 2 years ago and found it too slow. I donno what the status is now.

Ronald. K

[Ronald Kayondo]

I have not tried Super Dev Mode but am curious whether it faster (in terms of compile speed) compared to the Old Plugin?

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Ronald. K

[Raghu Mittal]

Hi Ronald,

When I tried the Super Dev Mode on my GWT project, I didn't notice any major differences in speed. Though the project was a small one. But I assume that it will probably be either close to or slightly faster than the Google Hosted mode, plus it will probably improve with time.

Raghu