Deploy Smart GWT on Apache Tomcat

[mhardik]

Hi Everyone

I have tried to deploy SmartGWT application with Apache Tomcat 6.0

I have created

/gwtdemo/webapps as context directory.
/gwtdemo/webapps/WEB-INF/
/gwtdemo/webapps/WEB-INF/lib
/gwtdemo/webapps/WEB-INF/classes

I have included all jars of GWT & 2 jars of SmartGWT.
xml also includes
<inherits name="com.smartgwt.SmartGwt"/>

But when i run it, it does not show anything.

[sjivan]

Start by examining the hello-world sample that is part of the Smart GWT distribution. It has an ant build file with a "war" target that produces a war file that you can drop in tomcat and have it deployed. Once you understand how the war is structures you can apply it to your project.

Sanjiv

[mhardik]

Hi Sanjiv,

Thanks for reply.

I have tried to build .war file using ant but it failed.Though I tried after setting GWT_HOME environment variable also.

However, I looked into build.xml and it seems that it creates the same hierarchy of directories like i have mentioned above. But instead of /webapps which standard for Tomcat , it creates '/war' which Jetty uses.

Will it work under tomcat ?

[mhardik]

I was able to deploy SmartGwt under tomcat with the help a team mate.

Though, Its very easy. SO, i thouht to put it here that might help others.

Put your all dependency .jars are under /war/WEB-INF/lib.
Clean the project with 'ant' or IDE like eclipse.
Compile it with GWT Compile.

Let say, you have gwt appln names "nil".
So, you structure should like
[nil/war/..]
With all files residing under/war.

Copy all contents from /war directory.

Go to Tomcat/webpps.
Create a dir called "nil".

Paste all copied contents. Restart Tomcat.

Then access using:
http://localhost:8080/nil

It should display your gwt application home page.

Hope it helps.!!

[paulwhiteb]

No luck here deploying to tomcat

Hi.

I have managed to do and run a simple smartgwt application that I would like to deploy to tomcat ver 6.0.43 running on windows 7 x64.

I did the application following the steps in this link:

http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2010/06/getting-started-smartgwt-gwt-interfaces.html

Tomcat is running OK and I can run "examples" application correctly. I used: http://localhost:8080/examples/ and it worked.

The smartgwt application is running OK inside Eclipse but I want to test it with tomcat. I have tried the last solution in this thread of copying war contents inside \webapps\myproject\ and then when I go to:

http://localhost:8080/myproject/ I get this error:

HTTP Status 503 - This application is not currently available

I have also tried:
http://localhost:8080/myproject/myproject.html

and get the same error 503 as above.

I'm using chrome Version 40.0.2214.111 m, for testing in development mode (Eclipse) and with tomcat.

I can't follow the first solution here because I'm new to java and related tools so I don't know what a ant build file is or where to find it. And by the way I can not find a hello world in the smartwgt samples so I had to look elsewhere (javacodegeeks.com).

Any help please?

Thanks in advance.

[paulwhiteb]

Now it is working on Tomcat :)

The problem was tomcat was running on jdk 7.x and JRE Eclipse project configuration was set to use jre 8.x, so I created environment variable JRE_HOME to point to jre 8.x folder, tested and it worked.

To do the test I used:

http://localhost:8080/MyProjectName/

I copied the files under 'war' folder (Eclipse) to tomcat folder 'webapps' as said mhardik.

Thanks mhardik.