Installing GWT plugin with Eclipse

Question

I am trying to use GWT and I am very new to it. Following the doc, I tried to install the GWT plugin for Eclipse but then I have an error message :

Cannot complete the install because one or more required items could not be found.
  Software being installed: Google Plugin for Eclipse 3.7 3.0.1.v201206290132-rel-r37
  (com.google.gdt.eclipse.suite.e37.feature.feature.group 3.0.1.v201206290132-rel-r37)
 Missing requirement: Google Plugin for Eclipse 3.7 3.0.1.v201206290132-rel-r37
  (com.google.gdt.eclipse.suite.e37.feature.feature.group 3.0.1.v201206290132-rel-r37)
  requires 'org.mortbay.jetty.server 0.0.0' but it could not be found"

I tried to find to what org.mortbay.jetty.server could deal with, but I didn't find. Does anyone know?

Answer 1

This is because you're attempting to use the latest Juno build, 4.2, with a plugin link for 3.7.

Use the following update site: http://dl.google.com/eclipse/plugin/4.2

Everything should work fine now.

Answer 2

I had the same issue, but I think it's because I was using eclipse Juno (the google documentation says to use indigo). The jetty project recently moved under the eclipse umbrella, and the jetty bundles (org.mortbay.jetty.server) were renamed (see http://www.eclipse.org/proposals/jetty/). Thus the 3.7 google plugins wouldn't be able to resolve dependencies correctly.

Answer 3

If you still want the earlier (3.x) version of the plugin try copying the plugins directory of some team member who already has that version of the plugin installed. I couldn't imagine the reason why google decomittioned the previous version of the plugin!