no gwt or static content included in app

Régis Millet

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Mar 26, 2026, 9:54:35 AM Mar 26

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Hello.
now that I managed to make the project build, I see that there is no static files generated and my application does not work because no js file
no static data (css, images..) are there
no file with gwt.rpc extension either

when using mojo, static files were generated and put in a projectName-version-statics.zip files

my pom.xml for GWT module:


<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<groupId>fr.company</groupId>
<artifactId>projet</artifactId>
<packaging>war</packaging>
<version>3.4.0</version>
<name>Project (GWT)</name>

<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>3.5.10</version>
<relativePath/> 
</parent>

<properties>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<java.version>17</java.version>
<maven.compiler.source>${java.version}</maven.compiler.source>
<maven.compiler.target>${java.version}</maven.compiler.target>

<gwt.version>2.12.0</gwt.version>
<gwt.maven.mojo.compile.version>2.10.0</gwt.maven.mojo.compile.version>
<webappDirectory>${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}</webappDirectory>


<mapstruct.version>1.6.3</mapstruct.version>

<fileupload.version>1.6.0</fileupload.version>
<itextpdf.version>5.5.13.5</itextpdf.version>
<jfreechart.version>1.5.6</jfreechart.version>
<poi.version>5.5.1</poi.version>
<jsch.version>2.27.7</jsch.version>

<maven.compiler.version>3.8.1</maven.compiler.version>

<commons.io.version>2.14.0</commons.io.version>
</properties>

<dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.gwtproject</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.version}</version>
<type>pom</type>
<scope>import</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-io</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-io</artifactId>
<version>${commons.io.version}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

<dependencies>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-mail</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>fr.company</groupId>
<artifactId>projectCommons</artifactId>
<version>${project.version}</version>
</dependency>


<dependency>
<groupId>org.gwtproject</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-dev</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.gwtproject</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-servlet-jakarta</artifactId>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>net.ltgt.gwt.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>



<dependency>
<groupId>commons-fileupload</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload</artifactId>
<version>${fileupload.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.jfree</groupId>
<artifactId>jfreechart</artifactId>
<version>${jfreechart.version}</version>
</dependency>


<dependency>
<groupId>com.itextpdf</groupId>
<artifactId>itextpdf</artifactId>
<version>${itextpdf.version}</version>
<type>jar</type>
</dependency>


<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.poi</groupId>
<artifactId>poi</artifactId>
<version>${poi.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
<artifactId>mapstruct</artifactId>
<version>${mapstruct.version}</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>com.github.mwiede</groupId>
<artifactId>jsch</artifactId>
<version>${jsch.version}</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-fileupload2-jakarta</artifactId>
<version>2.0.0-M1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</dependency>


<dependency>
<groupId>jakarta.servlet</groupId>
<artifactId>jakarta.servlet-api</artifactId>
<version>6.2.0-M1</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

</dependencies>

<build>


<outputDirectory>${webappDirectory}/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>

<plugins>

<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>${gwt.maven.mojo.compile.version}</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>i18n</goal>
<goal>generateAsync</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<configuration>
<hostedWebapp>${webappDirectory}</hostedWebapp>
<i18nMessagesBundle>fr.company.project.Messages</i18nMessagesBundle>
</configuration>
</plugin>


<plugin>
<groupId>net.ltgt.gwt.maven</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>1.2.0</version>
<extensions>true</extensions>
<configuration>
<moduleName>fr.company.project.MyModule</moduleName>
<moduleShortName>module</moduleShortName>
<classpathScope>compile+runtime</classpathScope>
<webappDirectory>${webappDirectory}</webappDirectory>

<startupUrls>
<startupUrl>Module.html</startupUrl>
</startupUrls>

</configuration>

<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>generate-module</goal>
<goal>codeserver</goal>

</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

the navigator error on http://localhost:8080/project/ :
GET
http://localhost:8080/project/Module/Module.nocache.js
[HTTP/1.1 404 13ms]

Thomas Broyer

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Mar 26, 2026, 10:01:38 AM Mar 26

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On Thursday, March 26, 2026 at 2:54:35 PM UTC+1 mille...@gmail.com wrote:

<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>generate-module</goal>
<goal>codeserver</goal>

</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
</plugin>

You don't GWT-compile your application, you need to call the "compile" goal here.

Also, it's weird and useless to have the codeserver goal here (weird because you wouldn't want to call it during a "standard" build, you want to explicitly invoke it from the command line, and useless because it doesn't bind to any lifecycle phase by default, so it won't be executed anyway without some more configuration)

Régis Millet

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Mar 26, 2026, 10:08:55 AM Mar 26

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OK, my understanding of the goals was wrong.

but now that I only put compile, I get - gwt-maven-plugin:1.2.0:compile (default) @ module ---
[INFO] Loading inherited module 'fr.company.module.Module'
[INFO] Loading inherited module 'com.google.gwt.core.Core'
[INFO] [ERROR] Unable to find 'com/google/gwt/core/Core.gwt.xml' on your classpath; could be a typo, or maybe you forgot to include a classpath entry for source?

Régis Millet

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Mar 26, 2026, 10:27:34 AM Mar 26

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when i tried a lot of things , i "lost" my gwt-user dependency.

building currently running

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Régis Millet

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Mar 26, 2026, 11:06:07 AM Mar 26

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Still no js found.

they are generated but not exploded.

Régis Millet

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Mar 26, 2026, 2:16:08 PM Mar 26

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finally found by lurking in the group questions.

in my Main html page, Module.html, had to add

< meta name ="gwt:property" content ="baseUrl=Module/" />

for the

< script type ="text/javascript" language ="javascript" src =" Module / Module .nocache.js" ></ script > to work.

when I removed the folder in script tag, the nocache was not found and the meta is needed for other files listed in " Module. nocache.js" where the base folder was not there.

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