Q: how to package Java client side source code to be reused in multiple apps?

[mark_watson]

I am using version 2.5.

I am refactoring 3 SmartGWTPro apps by removing common datasource and UI client side Java code and creating a separate library project that can be shared across all 3 apps.

Obviously no problems at all with the server side code. However, the GWT compiler needs to "see" the client Java code in the common library.

The worst solution: set symbolic links in the 3 web applications so it looks like the source tree is in each of the project directories. I really would prefer to not do this.

Another possible solution might be to use the "maven-source-plugin" to also generate a source jar for the common library but I don't know how to:

1. use the source jar when running in dev mode (mvn gwt:run).

2. use the source jar when running a GWT/SmartGWT app in InteliJ

3. build a deployable war file

Any advice will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!,
Mark

[Isomorphic]

Are you already aware of the approach of just creating a GWT module that is inherited by the two applications? Any reason this was eliminated as a possibility?

[mark_watson]

That is what I ended up doing.