Debug clientside - compile clientside code directly from project

Vaadin 6 / 7 / 8 Framework UI
1

Hi,

i am doing my first steps in clientside coding and currently setting up a well working debug environment. Therefore i followed a vaadin instruction and i was really suppressed that it is working in less than 10 minutes! :smiley:

Now i try to include my

widget-project

 into the debug environment.

This means:
There is an eclipse project called

Base

. It is a vaadin project and contains
WEB_INF, VAADIN and META_INF
 folders. The vaadin jar and all required addons are located in
WEB_INF/lib
. So far everything is working really fine.

But there is a second vaadin project called

MyAddon

 and contains my own client side widget implementation. I can use the vaadin export wizard
“Vaadin Add-on package”
 and put the created jar-file into the project
Base/WebContent/WEB_INF/lib
, compile all that stuff and run the debug. Everything is fine and works as expected.

But it would be nicer to get a smarter process in debugging my addon.

My question:
I would like to avoid the step of exporting the
Vaadin Add-on package to Base/WebContent/WEB_INF/lib
. Therefore it would be great, if the gwt compiler could use the class files from the project

MyAddon

. So i played around and added dependencies to the projects, but nothing worked.

Did anybody do some similar stuff?

Thanks,
Florian Pirchner
redVoodo.org

2

No ideas? Tried different approaches - nothing worked so far.

What is the default way to debugg clientside code?

Thanks,
Florian Pirchner

redVoodo.org

3

Hi,

The GWT compiler uses source files, so just adding dependency in eclipse is not enough. Adding sources to class path should do the trick. Still I would go 100% sure how our eclipse plugin handles that currently.

cheers,
matti

4

Thanks,

i will try adding the source files to the class path.

Best,
Florian Pirchner

5

Hi,

in my setup, which is very similar to yours, I have linked the source code directory of the addon project to the base project. This should fix the widgetset compilation issues.

Thomas

6

Thanks