Enhancing your GWT Application with the UrlRewriteFilter
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Join For FreeRather than having my application's HTML file in src/main/java/com/mycompany/Application.html, I'd like to move it to src/main/webapp/index.html. I tried copying the HTML and adding the following to my index.html, but no dice:
<meta name="gwt:module" content="com.mycompany.Application"/>
Is this possible with the gwt-maven-plugin? I'd like to have my main HTML and CSS at the root of my application.
The good news is I figured out a solution using the UrlRewriteFilter that 1) allows hosted mode to work as usual and 2) allows your app to be served up from the root URL (/ instead of /com.company.Module/Application.html). Here's the urlrewrite.xml that makes it all possible.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE urlrewrite PUBLIC "-//tuckey.org//DTD UrlRewrite 3.0//EN"
"http://tuckey.org/res/dtds/urlrewrite3.0.dtd">
<urlrewrite>
<rule>
<from>/$</from>
<to type="forward" last="true">/com.mycompany.app.Application/Application.html</to>
</rule>
<rule>
<from>/index.html</from>
<to type="forward" last="true">/com.mycompany.app.Application/Application.html</to>
</rule>
<-- This last rule is necessary for JS and CSS files -->
<rule>
<from>^/(.*)\.(.*)$</from>
<to type="forward">/com.mycompany.app.Application/$1.$2</to>
</rule>
</urlrewrite>
If you're using the gwt-maven plugin, this file goes in src/main/webapp/WEB-INF. In addition, you'll need to add the following to your web.xml.
<filter>
<filter-name>rewriteFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>rewriteFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
Finally, add the UrlRewriteFilter dependency in your pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.tuckey</groupId>
<artifactId>urlrewritefilter</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>
Please let me know if you have any questions.
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