GWT + Maven + Tomcat + JNDI + Eclipse configuration - maven

Question

I've got a project using GWT 2.6.1 + Maven 3.2 + Tomcat 5.5 (yes, I know it's an old one ...) + Eclipse Luna which is using JNDI allowing for external parameters to be configured.
As you might know, the context XML file is located at /conf/Catalina/localhost/myWebApp.xml where myWebApp is the Java web application name.
I am using gwt-maven-plugin for this project (the one from mojo haus) which has the version 2.6.1.
Here is my current configuration :
<plugin>
<groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
<artifactId>gwt-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<version>2.6.1</version>
<executions>
<execution>
<goals>
<goal>compile</goal>
<goal>test</goal>
<goal>i18n</goal>
<goal>generateAsync</goal>
</goals>
</execution>
</executions>
<!-- Plugin configuration. There are many available options, see gwt-maven-plugin documentation at codehaus.org -->
<configuration>
<module>xxx.yyy.myModuleName</module>
<runTarget>myWebPage.html</runTarget>
<hostedWebapp>${webappDirectory}</hostedWebapp>
<encoding>UTF-8</encoding>
<failOnError>true</failOnError>
<style>OBF</style>
<i18nMessagesBundle>xxx.yyy.zzz.client.ui.i18n.OlbClientMessages</i18nMessagesBundle>
<extraParam>true</extraParam>
<extraJvmArgs>-Dgwt.compiler.optimizationLevel=9</extraJvmArgs>
<extraJvmArgs>-Xms128M</extraJvmArgs>
<extraJvmArgs>-Xmx1200M</extraJvmArgs>
<extraJvmArgs>-XX:MaxPermSize=768M</extraJvmArgs>
<noServer>true</noServer>
<logLevel>INFO</logLevel>
</configuration>
</plugin>
As you can see, i am using the noServer (configured to "true") option because I must use an external Tomcat container for the server side.
My question is :
How can I enable client side AND server side debugging within my actual configuration through a step-by-step help.
I've made a lot of attempts but i can't make things working.
I've tested running the "mvn gwt-debug" which tries to connect to default port 8000 and then connecting a remote java application which connects to my webapp to localhost:8000 and it works well, but it's only for the server side.
I also need to debug the client side in the DEVMODE.
Thanks for your help.

Answer 1

There are two ways to run a remote server. First is using using DevMode with -noserver and pointing the war directory to the output war directory of the external server. The second way is to use the CodeServer entrypoint and run a WTP server runtime and set the launcher directory to tomcat output war directory.
I prefer the second routine, and built automation into the GPE fork.
http://gwt-plugins.github.io/documentation/gwt-eclipse-plugin/servers/Tomcat.html - see it in action here. There are videos and such.