From the course: Learning GWT
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- [Instructor] Recall in super dev mode the GWT compiles the entire application into java script which means it's not really possible to use the convenient debugging tools that are available in a modern IDE like Eclipse. Instead, we must rely on the development tools of the modern browser like Chrome which come with baked in development tools and are accessible via either right clicking and clicking inspect or using the keyboard shortcut of option command i. Either way the development tools will open and if we wanted to see the compressed and compiled java script that is actually behind this application click the sources option and navigate to currency convertor open up this no domain and then you can see let me drag this window up the compressed java script for the GWT application. So we could debug this code but I don't know about you but this is far more complicated and not human readable for me to debug. It would be really great if we could see our java code, the source code…
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