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GWT Development Environment Troubleshooting Recap

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Overview GWT is not for the faint hearted. Even setting up the development environment causes the numerous efforts to get it right, I sweated a lot during my own time for bootstrap of the dev env. The special part of GWT is the capability of converting the Java code to the Javascript code. In light of this methodology, GWT is not as intuitive or natural as the regular Java development or Javascript development. In the following paragraphs, I'm going to highlight the most common obstacles developers might confront when bootstrapping the GWT development. I will take this repository -- https://github.com/Bo-Ye/three-kings-gwt as the example. Run following command to download source code from Github. git clone https://github.com/Bo-Ye/three-kings-gwt.git Troubleshooting in Eclipse GWT, first of all, is a web application which follows standard web project layout and can be deployed into web container such as, tomcat, jetty, etc. The example repository is a maven web