Invoke a GWT RPC service from Java directly

Question

Is there an easy way to invoke a GWT RPC service endpoint directly from Java code? I mean real Java code, not Java code compiled down into javascript.

I ask because

Answer 1

Are you trying to benchmark the business logic of the service, or how well GWT-RPC itself performs? If you are mostly worried about how well your backend code performs, you could just instantiate the class that implements your service directly:

MyServiceImpl impl = new MyServiceImpl();
impl.doSomething();

If you want to test a greater slice of the stack, including the RPC calls, take a look here. There is a section called "running your test in web mode" that has the following line: 'By default, tests run in hosted mode are run as normal Java bytecode in a JVM'. So if you use the described setup, I think you get your tests to run in java by default. Also on that page is info about GWT's built in profiling tools.