What is the best Eclipse GWT plugin?

Question

We're going to investigate GWT for our project. When searching for an Eclipse GWT plugin I got many.

1. Google Eclipse Plugin
2. GWT Designer
3. Cypal studio
4. None, run GWT in hosted mode
5. GWT-Tooling
6. Other?

In your view, what is the best GWT plugin for Eclipse and why?

[27 Nov: Editied to reflect the answers below...]

Answer 1

None of the listed. Run it in hosted mode straight from Eclipse.

Answer 2

GWT Designer fits the bill perfectly. If not Eclipse, then even Netbeans plugin for GWT is also good.

Answer 3

I've not looked since a few months but GWT designer was very good.

Answer 4

Also, GWT Plugin from Cypal Studio and Googlipse are both one and the same. Have a look at this.

Answer 5

From my experience with GWT (about 9 months worth of non-stop development with the framework), in the end you'll still be stuck a lot of the time trying to pinpoint various bugs and erroneous behaviors which will appear.

So a plugin is nice, but won't save you most of the work.

Answer 6

Google has now its own plug-in for GWT development. Tutorial: http://www.vogella.de/articles/GWT/article.html

Answer 7

I used no gwt plugin to develop gwt application in eclipse. (just as easy)

• com.google.gwt.dev.GWTShell (GWT host) activated by *.launch directly in eclipse
• com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler to compile gwt java code to javascript for the war file.

But for new project i want to try it with a plugin.

Answer 8

I don't know if people in this question have seen or not, but Google has come out with their own plug in for Eclipse. Take a look:

http://code.google.com/eclipse/

Answer 9

I use Netbeans Free-Form project for developing GWT application. This kind of Netbeans project use ant for managing your project. an example

Answer 10

Cypal 1.0 is the best free plugin out there for eclipse, as it makes gwt file creating and management very simple. it also organizes your xml file(s) quite neatly for you. Unfortunately, cypal 2.0 has been in alpha for over a year now and i dont know if the developers are going to continue with it :(. gwt designer is the best commercial on i've seen out there, as it simplifies designing of your web app. although really simple to use, gwt designer sucks at runtime, especially when you're working with large datasets. hence, although quite nice to use, it's not worth the price

Answer 11

voila le rapport de mon mini projet

» Tutorial GWT : Rapport de mini projet J2EE avec JAVA , GWT , Cypal , Oracle , EXT , GwtExt et Eclipse »

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/47027641/Tutorial-GWT–Rapport-de-mini-projet-J2EE-avec-JAVA–GWT–Cypal–Oracle–EXT–GwtExt-et-Eclipse