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Ive installed the Google Plugin for Eclipse and created a demo project using App Engine and GWT. Now I want to launch and see it. But after compile nothing else happens. Shouldn't there be an integrated browser that shows the app?

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As far as I know, you just point your browser (any browser) to http://localhost:8080. Is that not working for you?

Jack Leow
No. I don't have tomcat or anything else. I know there is a build-in solution in eclipse, have seen it once in a while. Any idea?
Thanks
The Google Plug-in comes with an embedded Jetty server. I may have gotten the port number wrong, perhaps it's 8888. I can't really verify until I get to work.
Jack Leow
I figured out there is a run config where you can check "use free port automatically", which was in my case 49203
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You need to right click on the project name and hit run > web application. Compiling it is for deployment, and most likely not what your looking for from running. The key differences here are hosted mode handles the cross-compilation for you, while compiling is meant for deployment of the javascript to your web server.

Jonathan Kushner
Woot! My first best answer, and with an awesome technology! Thanks!
Jonathan Kushner
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I get it running externally on the command line with dev_appserver . or to upload to the google site appcfg update .

for python they're .py files and for java their .cmd calls wish I could mix and match my languages/GAE environments

Mark Essel