GWT development shell

start the GWT development shell with

gwt run

url pattern for the GWT application

assume we have an application MyApp with a resource users. the application has the usual rails specific views (for our users):

• http://localhost:8888/users the collection
• http://localhost:8888/users/new to create a new user
• http://localhost:8888/users/<id> to view user with id
• http://localhost:8888/users/<id>/edit to edit user with id

but also the json or xml variants (replace json with xml resp.):

• http://localhost:8888/users.json the collection
• http://localhost:8888/users/<id>.json to view user with id

the GWT application uses following url pattern:

• http://localhost:8888/MyApp.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997#users the collection
• http://localhost:8888/MyApp.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997#users/new to create a new user
• http://localhost:8888/MyApp.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997#users/<id> to view user with id
• http://localhost:8888/MyApp.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997#users/<id>/edit to edit user with id

you will find these common url pattern also in the path annotation of the rest-service src/main/java/com/example/client/restservices/UsersRestService.java. the default baseurl for the restservices is http://localhost:8888/ so the restservices use the following urls:

• http://localhost:8888/users
• http://localhost:8888/users/<id>

with a json payload - rails negotiates the response format on the given HTTP_ACCEPT header field.