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NOTICE There is a new plugin (archetypes and eclipse integration), a fresh start that correctly support multi-module projects, it is not version-bounded with GWT, support multiples GWT versions and other fixes, improvements and best practices. This plugin is now considered the legacy GWT maven plugin (aka mojo GWT maven plugin) and the new one is considered the new generation GWT maven plugin (aka tbroyer GWT maven plugin). The legacy maven plugin is still supported but it is strongly encouraged to use the new one for new projects.

Using the Archetype

Using the archetype is the simpliest way to get a clean, ready for development GWT application. It is comparable to the application created by SDK webAppCreator with the ''-maven'' option, with some tweaks to nicelly integrate with Google Eclipse and M2Eclipse plugins.

Using the Archetype

Use it as you would any other Maven archetype to create a template/stub project.

 mvn archetype:generate \
   -DarchetypeGroupId=org.codehaus.mojo \
   -DarchetypeArtifactId=gwt-maven-plugin \
   -DarchetypeVersion=2.8.1

The generated project can then be imported as "existing project" into Eclipse, or if you don't like Eclipse you can use another IDE and run command-line maven to launch GWT hoste mode with ''mvn gwt:run''.

Note: don't run mvn archetype:create as the plugin uses archetype 2.0 descriptor.

Layout

The generated project layout looks like following figure :

It uses M2Eclipse for classpath management and Google Eclipse Plugin for nice GWT support inside Eclipse.