Chapter 7. Building, Packaging, and Deploying

This chapter covers

  • Building and packaging GWT modules
  • Building and deploying GWT applications
  • Managing and automating the build process

I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

After you start working with GWT, there will come a point when you need to step out of development mode and into the realm of building, packaging, and deploying your projects.

GWT applications can be broken up into multiple logical modules, and modules can be used as libraries or general components. Modules offer a lot of versatility beyond the configuration and inheritance they enable, which we first covered in chapter 1. In this chapter, we’re ...

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