I am updating an existing project from GWT 1.5.2 to GWT 2.0.0. We use maven 2 to manage our dependencies and do all of our development in Eclipse 3.5.

Because we use maven to manage our dependencies, I do not have all of those jars in the war\web-inf\lib directory as GWT specifies. Instead, they are in the maven repository, just where maven likes them. I have the project set up so that maven can successfully build and launch in either dev or web mode and the application runs correctly.

The problem is that when I launch from Eclipse, I get a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError. If I manually copy of my dependencies into war\web-inf\lib before launching, everything runs fine, but that doesn't lend itself to a long-term solution. First, if I check all of those jars into our version control, that will subvert much of the value we get from maven. As annoying as maven can be, ditching it is not the answer. Second, having developers manually copy them over every time they want to debug something is ridiculous.

So can I get Eclipse to copy the dependencies into war\web-inf\lib before launching? Is there an alternate solution that I'm missing?

Thanks,

Tony