Installing facebook4GWT using Maven2 and Ant

1) Download the newest (facebook4gwt-1.0.4.jar) from:

http://code.google.com/p/facebook4gwt/downloads/list

2) In Terminal change directory to your download location

3) Install the jar in your local Maven2 REPO:

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=com.reveregroup.gwt -DartifactId=facebook4gwt -Dversion=1.0.4 -Dpackaging=jar -Dfile=facebook4gwt-1.0.4.jar

4) Verify that the jar is installed correctly:

uki@Uki:~/.m2/repository/com/reveregroup/gwt/facebook4gwt/1.0.4 $ ls

facebook4gwt-1.0.4.jar

5) Update your pom.xml (Maven2) with the dependency:

<dependency>

<groupId>com.reveregroup.gwt</groupId>

<artifactId>facebook4gwt</artifactId>

<version>1.0.4</version>

</dependency>

6) Run Ant (build.xml) to bring the jars to your project:

       <target name="copy_maven_jars_filtered_resources">

<echo>Maven Executable: ${MAVEN_EXEC}</echo>

<!-- resources:resources filters the files in the resources directory and copies them to target/classes -->

<!-- dependency:copy-dependencies copies the dependencies to the target/dependency folder -->

<exec taskname="mvn war" dir="${basedir}"

executable="${MAVEN_EXEC}">

<arg line="clean resources:resources dependency:copy-dependencies -Dtarget=${TARGET}" />

</exec>

<delete dir="${GOOGLE_WAR}\\WEB-INF\\lib" />

<!-- copy the maven depenecies to the war/WEB-INF/lib folder -->

<copy todir="${GOOGLE_WAR}\\WEB-INF\\lib">

<fileset dir="${MAVEN_TARGET}\\dependency" />

</copy>

<!-- copy the filtered resources to the src folder -->

<copy todir="${GOOGLE_SRC}">

<fileset dir="${MAVEN_TARGET}\\classes" />

</copy>

</target>

7) Use the facebook4gwt API and send us the feedback