March 18, 2010

GWT Development Mode Bookmarklet

Sometimes, when debugging a GWT application, one needs to attach the magical gwt.codesvr= incantation to a URL manually, for whatever reason. It’s easy enough to do this by hand but even easier to use a bookmarklet. Create a bookmark from that there link and, when you click it later, it will add the GWT development mode parameters to the currently open URL. If you need to use a development mode server other than localhost you’ll need to edit the bookmarklet accordingly – it may be easier to do so using the un-collapsed script: Read more