GWT/ Eclipse: ClassNotFoundException com/google/gwt/dev/Compiler

Question

i recently updated from GWT 2.0.4 to 2.1.0. Since then I cannot compile my GWT application anymore. When I click on the GWT compile button of the GWT eclipse plugin I get th

Answer 1

My understanding is:

When GWT compiles a project, it needs the tool "com.google.gwt.dev.Compiler" (which has a "main" entry point); however, GWT does not use Eclipse project's "build path" setting to find the tool, instead, it looks at OS's "classpath" system variable.

So, I think the solution is to add "D:\Java\GWT\gwt-2.6.1\*;" (my case as example) into "classpath" and restart Eclipse. It works well for me since.