Running MGWT in Super Dev Mode does not pick up code changes

Question

I was evaluating MGWT for the new mobile version of our website. So I downloaded the MGWT's showcase project and set it up in my Eclipse. I was able to compile the project and run it. I was then trying to set up the showcase to run in the Super Dev Mode environment which would help improve the development speed a lot. I followed the steps in Daniel's blog: http://blog.daniel-kurka.de/2012/07/mgwt-super-dev-mode.html.

Everything was fine. I was able to start the Codeserver. I was able to see the Super Dev Mode popup when I opened up the app. I was able to request the Codeserver to recompile and I could see the compilation messages in the console. I could also see the generated JS files of the recompilation.

However, it seemed that the Codeserver did not pick up the changes I made. I tried to change a simple text, then asked the Codeserver to recompile, but the changes did not show after the recompilation. When I checked the new generated JS files, I could see that the Codeserver still used the old code to recompile.

When I restarted the Codeserver, the changes were recompiled correctly and I could see them in the app.

If anyone has a clue of what I might have done wrong, please let me know. I appreciate your help very much.

Thanks

Answer 1

Just happened to find a solution to my own question:

Instead of adding the source folder to the classpath of the Codeserver run config as in Daniel's instructions, I added this source folder as part of the command line arguments using the -src argument (see here for more info).

So the arguments string for the Codeserver launch config should look like:

-bindAddress <codeserver-ip-address> -src <gwt-source-path> <gwt-module-name>