[#IDEADEV-22714] Would be nice to choose when the GWT compiler should compile.

IDEA: Development

Would be nice to choose when the GWT compiler should compile.

Created: 08 Jun 07 13:50 Updated: 23 Oct 07 09:24

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GWT Support

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Diana Final

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Build:	6,180
Severity:	Medium

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Right now the GWT compiler starts every time the normal Java compiler starts. This is fine, except when running for example small unit tests, it will recompile all GWT code which is not at all needed by the unit test. In my project this takes about 1 ~ 2 minutes, which is very annoying.

Would be nice to configure in what situations the GWT compiler should kick in and in situations it should not.

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Travis Reeder - 15 Oct 07 21:43

I agree, really slows down dev time. Also, should not compile when running in hosted mode.

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Tom van Zummeren - 15 Oct 07 23:17

At the moment my project grew a lot bigger, and compilation is now taking at least 5 minutes each time (probably 10 minutes if the GWT plugin does it). I disabled the plugin some time ago because it was unworkable.

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Nikolay Chashnikov - 16 Oct 07 09:40

You can uncheck "Run GWT compiler on make" in GWT facet options if you want to turn off GWT compiler.

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Travis Reeder - 16 Oct 07 20:54 - edited

Nikolay, the point is we want it to compile sometimes, but not others. Changing the project settings to switch this on and off just isn't good enough. It should just be smarter about when it compiles, for instance: only compile when you are doing a full make (ctrl-f9) or Running a Tomcat Server instance that has a GWT facet in it, but DO NOT COMPILE when Running a GWT Configuration (hosted mode) or when running a unit test like Tom says.