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nix86
nix86

Reputation: 3047

How can I debug a GWT project in Netbeans

I am developing a GWT project with Netbeans. When I debug it I always get the screen saying "Development Mode requires the GWT Developer Plugin". The problem is that my version of firefox is too recent to run that plugin. So what can I do?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1623

Answers (2)

dlamblin
dlamblin

Reputation: 45381

There's documentation for using the GWT Hosted Mode debugging in Netbeans, but you should be better able to use the newer GWT Super Dev Mode. To be able to set breakpoints in Netbeans though, you'd need to properly configure the source map support in Netbeans to map between the compiled JavaScript and the source Java files. I wasn't able to find an obvious reference for doing that with Netbeans.

The fun thing was that gwtproject.org made the sourcemaps part of the released site, and there was a tutorial to using them against their site to step you through how to setup your IDE... But again I didn't find that for Netbeans... Here's an example java source that's linked from gwtproject.org's JavaScript sourcemaps:
http://www.gwtproject.org/src/com/google/gwt/site/webapp/client/GWTProjectEntryPoint.java

Upvotes: 0

Thomas Broyer
Thomas Broyer

Reputation: 64561

Update to GWT 2.7, DevMode no longer requires a browser plugin (uses so-called "super dev mode" instead; where you debug in the browser rather than the IDE)

Upvotes: 2

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