DevMode remote debug port should be enabled by default about gwt-gradle-plugin HOT 3 OPEN

As far as I know, this blocking behavior is the intended behavior when running Gradle tasks in debug mode. I do not know if this can globally be changed in Gradle.

I personally do not always start dev mode with debugging turned on as this kills your perm gen after several reloads. I do not know if this also occurs if debugging is turned on but no debugger is actually attached. This would need to be checked.

If you need that behavior, you can easily implement it by using:

gwtDev {
    jvmArgs '-agentlib:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=8000'
 }

from gwt-gradle-plugin.

The blocking happens only if you use 'suspend=y' with the debug command lines options, hardly the best choice. I will have to try your suggestion of setting the jvmArgs, but it would only work if you execute the gwtDev as a separate process (which I assume you do). Thanks.

from gwt-gradle-plugin.

The tasks compileGwt/draftCompileGwt, gwtDev, gwtSuperDev are all executed as seperate process.
I don't know why Gradle doesn't provide a functionality to customize the debugging stuff. As far as I know, there's only the debug flag :(

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