Deploying GWT Applications in SpringSource dm Server

This will be a series of 3 blogs describing a step-by-step approach to building and deploying GWT applications in the SpringSource dm Server™. The focus of the blogs will be as follows:

1. Building and deploying the GWT StockWatcher sample app as a WAR file in dm Server, using the SpringSource Tool Suite to build it from scratch.
2. Deploying with a "Shared Libraries" approach: How to remove the GWT dependencies from the WAR and deploy them as an OSGi bundle in dm Server.
3. Deploying with a "Shared Services" approach: We convert the single WAR file into OSGi services which can be shared by other applications and hot-swapped out.

It is worth noting that I am not using the Spring Framework anywhere in these first two blogs. Integration between Spring and GWT is a subject in itself and I want to try to keep each blog as focused as possible. In the third blog, I will show how to use Spring to publish and consume OSGi services and how this can be integrated with GWT.