How to include external classes in a GAE deployment?
- by kodra
I am using the Google plug-in for Eclipse and have the following problem:
The project consists of a GWT based GUI talking to a server running on GAE and using JPA.
Additionally there is a project to migrate the legacy data to the new datastore.
Since these both project use common data model, I have extracted a set of interfaces and enums into a separate project and set the other two projects dependencies on it.
The Java App project seems to work, but the GWT/GAE only works if I manually copy the classes into the WEB-INF/classes directory. Obviously this is only working when using the housted mode.
Anybody knows how to configure such a multi project setup in Eclipse?
Also, I am not sure if the multi project layout is the best solution. The set of common model objects is used in all 3 areas:
user client (GWT project compiling standard folders client and shared)
server side (providing services for GWT-RPC, uploading and different feeds)
migration application (posting the legacy data to the upload servlet)
What are the architectural options to keep the amount of duplicated classes on minimum?
