Add to vmargs

-Dgwt.rpc.dumpPayload=true

Without these, runs slow on Phenom X6 4gb..

-Xms768m

-Xmx768m

-XX:MaxPermSize=256m

1. Download the latest jars from http://www.sencha.com/products/extgwt/download/
2. Follow the “setup.txt” create a eclipse project.
3. Add all the folders in samples/**/src as source folder
4. Expand the samples/examples.war into the “war” folder in your eclipse dir
5. Delete the old “gxt.jar” from the WEB-INF/lib and replace with the gxt-2.2.3-gwt22.jar (seems like an old version is bundled with the samples.war)
6. Run As, Web app, explorer.html, cross fingers…

This has really helped in the Coherence projects I’ve been working on. Nothing quite like real world experience. More resources here.

When you can’t trust the stacktrace