How to compile a widgetSet in vaadin? - gwt

Question

I am trying to use the visualizationsForVaadin add-on. The problem is, that I have to compile a custom widgetSet. I've been dealing with this the whole day, and still cannot compile it. First of all, here is my configuration:
Vaadin 6.7.1
gwt 2.3.0
following dependencies are in my pom file:
gwt-ajaxloader 1.1.0
validation-api 1.0.0.GA
gwt-visualization 1.0.2
gwt-user 2.3.0
visualizationsforvaadin 1.1.2.
When I try to compile the widgetSet with maven gwt plugin I get an exception:
Loading inherited module 'com.google.gwt.core.XSLinker'
[ERROR] Line 22: Unexpected element 'when-linker-added'
[ERROR] Failure while parsing XML
An interesting thing is, that the gwt-dev library, that is automatically loaded (as far as I know) is of version 2.0.3
I have tried everything possible (even impossible) and still nothing. At some point I had other exceptions complaining that the import of validation classes could not be resolved. I think, that has been resolved by some other dependencies. Please help. Thank you.
POM configuration:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<!-- Version 2.1.0-1 works at least with Vaadin 6.5 -->
<version>2.3.0</version>
<configuration>
<!-- if you don't specify any modules, the plugin will find them -->
<!--modules>
..
</modules-->
<webappDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}/VAADIN/widgetsets</webappDirectory>
<extraJvmArgs>-Xmx512M -Xss1024k</extraJvmArgs>
<runTarget>clean</runTarget>
<hostedWebapp>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</hostedWebapp>
<noServer>true</noServer>
<port>8080</port>
<soyc>false</soyc>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
<version>2.3.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</plugin>
And here are the GWT dependencies
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt.google-apis</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-visualization</artifactId>
<version>1.0.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt.google-apis</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-ajaxloader</artifactId>
<version>1.1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.vaadin.addons</groupId>
<artifactId>visualizationsforvaadin</artifactId>
<version>1.1.2</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>javax</groupId>
<artifactId>javaee-web-api</artifactId>
<version>6.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin</artifactId>
<version>${vaadin.version}</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.gwt</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-user</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.version}</version>
</dependency>

Answer 1

I struggled with this over the past 2 days.
For future reference:
What you'll need:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-client-compiler</artifactId>
<version>${versions.vaadin}</version>
</dependency>
Configure gwt-maven-plugin as follows (you may not need all configs that I used, of course):
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${versions.gwt}</version>
<configuration>
<extraJvmArgs>-Xmx512M -Xss1024k</extraJvmArgs>
<webappDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/VAADIN/widgetsets
</webappDirectory>
<hostedWebapp>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/VAADIN/widgetsets
</hostedWebapp>
<noServer>true</noServer>
<draftCompile>true</draftCompile>
<compileReport>false</compileReport>
<style>DETAILED</style>
<runTarget>http://localhost:8080/</runTarget>
</configuration>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>resources</goal>
<goal>compile</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
The vaadin-maven-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>com.vaadin</groupId>
<artifactId>vaadin-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${versions.vaadin}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<configuration>
<!--<modules>
<module>org.vaadin.aceeditor.AceEditorWidgetSet</module>
</modules>-->
</configuration>
<goals>
<goal>update-widgetset</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>
You may also want to configure your maven-clean-plugin:
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.5</version>
<configuration>
<filesets>
<fileset>
<directory>
${basedir}/src/main/webapp/VAADIN/widgetsets
</directory>
</fileset>
</filesets>
</configuration>
</plugin>
In web.xml for your servlet (Ace Editor as an example):
<init-param>
<param-name>widgetset</param-name>
<param-value>org.vaadin.aceeditor.AceEditorWidgetSet</param-value>
</init-param>
Note that I did NOT include gwt as a dependency in my pom.xml.

Answer 2

I have a fully functional Vaadin project with custom widgets in Eclipse and I can't find any references to gwt-dev anywhere in the project. Go to Project properties -> Java Build Path -> Libraries and delete all references to gwt-dev. Also remove it from your pom.xml and try to recompile the widgetset.
edit: It could also be your gwt-user dependency. Try setting the version of gwt-user to 2.3.0 (if it already isn't) and set the scope to provided.