2.9. Reviewing the deployable application part of a GWT application

The web archive (war) is where the application you’ll deploy to your production server resides. It’s a standard Java Enterprise Edition[7] (JEE) web archive, which means your compiled GWT application is standards compliant (and if you’re familiar with wars you can expect it to behave in line with your expectations).

7 Java Enterprise Edition: http://mng.bz/815h.

Before you compile your application for the first time, this folder holds only the static resources of the project, for example, the application’s HTML file and perhaps CSS files, images, and any non-GWT-RPC server-side code.

After compilation, the resulting JavaScript files for the client side are placed in the ...

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