In essence, if you'd like to use GWT and you want to use the latest Eclipse, there's no officially supported option nearly four months later.
If you do a little searching, you'll find a few threads on the subject, :
- Some threads recommend just using the Eclipse 4.4 plugin (Google group for the Google Plugin).
- Other threads (stackoverflow, ) suggest that the 4.4 plugin doesn't work well with Eclipse 4.5.
- And of course, some threads just got no answer (devquestion)
A friend tried Eclipse 4.5 and the Google Plugin for Eclipse 4.4 together and hit a NoClassDefFound error for Java2HTMLEntityReader. A quick search found that it was a bug, but that raises further questions about a plugin fork, which looks like it might have been around since 2013. It looks like there's a lot of work underway.
Ultimately, between this and some of the posts about GWT 2.8, this adds to my long-growing sense that GWT is stagnating. It hasn't descended into a terrible state yet by any means. It's quite usable for existing projects. Still, I wouldn't recommended it for a new project, and I'd recommend that people using it on existing projects start thinking about the long-term plan for their projects and consider a plan to move away from GWT at some point and how to manage that transition.
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