Using GWTCOMP in your Projects

1. Create your GWT project as instructed in the GWT web site if you do not have one already.
   
2. If you are downloaded the source distribution or downloaded from the Subversion repository, build the project as described here. This will build the binary distribution.
   
3. The root directory of the GWTCOMP distribution has 2 jar files that is of interest:
   
   gwtcomp.jar - copy this file into your classpath. It contains all the GWTCOMP classes you need. You do not need to package this file into your distribution once you have run the GWT compiler to compile the code into Javascript. However, the GWT compiler needs this file in the classpath for compiling.
   
   gwtcomp-servlet.jar - copy this file in your web (servlet) project in the WEB-INF/lib directory. This file is optional and is needed only if you are using some of the widgets that require a back-end servlet (like the ServerFileBrowser), the server-side utility classes or utility servlets.  Also note that you will need to add entries into the web deployment description - web.xml for some of the widgets and servlets. See the javadocs for individual classes for details.
   
   
4. chronoscope-X.X.jar and gwtexporter.jar - copy these file into your classpath. These files contain the classes for charting that is internally used by GWTCOMP. You will need these files even if you are not using the live charting components.
   
5. If you are using the FileUploadServlet or other servlets, you will also need to include the jar files under the lib directory. See the javadocs for individual classes for details.
6. If you are using the drag and drop widgets, you will need to include the references to the scriptaculous javascript libraries in your application HTML page. Please see the javadocs for individual classes for details.
7. To your GWT module XML file, add the following line:
   
   <inherits name="org.cafesip.gwtcomp.GWTComponents"/>
   
   immediately after the line:
   
   <inherits name="com.google.gwt.user.User"/>
8. If you want to use the CSS style-sheet that we have created for the GWTCOMP widgets instead of using your own, to the GWT module HTML file, add the following HTML segment:
   
   <link type="text/css" rel='stylesheet' href='gwtcomp-css/gwt-components.css'/>
   
   A better option is to copy this file from our source distribution into your workspace and add the CSS link pointing to your CSS file. See the javadocs for individual widgets for details.
9. Start using the GWTCOMP widgets, utility classes and servlets. Make sure you have read the javadocs for class and method documentation, style references, examples and screen-shots,
   

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