I’ve put together these instructions so that others may be able to leverage from my experience and get going quickly.

Setup

I have following versions. If you are using different version, there may be slight changes to the menus you may see, but it should not differ a whole lot.

• Windows XP SP2
• Java SDK 1.6.0.10
• Eclipse Ganymede SR1 aka Version: 3.4.1 (Build id: M20080911-1700 to be specific)
• GWT  1.5.3

Creating the Sample Application

GWT’s Getting started page doesn’t talk about from which location to invoke the projectCreator and applicationCreator commands. That is probably the biggest problem. Run the projectCreator from your Eclipse Workspace area. It is important that you change the directory to newly created MyApp folder to execute applicationCreator.

Importing into Eclipse

If you have your -shell, -compile, .launch as well as .project command in same folder, then you are probably going to be OK.

From Eclipse select File->Import. Choose Existing Projects into Workspace, and point to your Eclipse Workspace folder. Eclipse will automatically select MyApp folder (since it sees .project file there)

Instead of Run->Run, check to see if you see two options when you click the drop down arrow next to the green Run icon. You should see ApplicationCreator and MyApp. Click on MyApp. The default is Application creator, which gave me class-not-found error.

Following is the output from my Command Prompt Window, for your reference

E:\EclipseWS\GWT>D:\gwt-windows-1.5.3\projectCreator.cmd -eclipse MyApp -out MyApp
Created directory MyApp\src
Created directory MyApp\test
Created file MyApp\.project
Created file MyApp\.classpath

E:\EclipseWS\GWT>cd MyApp

E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp>d:\gwt-windows-1.5.3\applicationCreator.cmd -eclipse MyApp com.mycompany.client.MyApp
Created directory E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany
Created directory E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany\client
Created directory E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany\public
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany\MyApp.gwt.xml
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany\public\MyApp.html
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany\public\MyApp.css
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\src\com\mycompany\client\MyApp.java
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\MyApp.launch
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\MyApp-shell.cmd
Created file E:\EclipseWS\GWT\MyApp\MyApp-compile.cmd

The setup

1. In your Outlook 2003, invoke Visual Basic Editor, either by pressing Alt+F11, or navigating the menu as “Tools->Macro->Visual Basic Editor”
2. In the Left hand side “Project” panel, make sure entry named “ThisOutlookSession” is highlighted.
3. Copy paste the code given below in the Right hand side Panel.
4. Exit out of VB Editor by either Alt+Q or by navigating the menu item File->Close.

Security

1. Make sure that the security is set to “High” (Tools->Macro->Security)
2. The changes we made will NOT work with High security, so we need to “certify” our code, so that it always works.
3. Invoke “selfcert.exe” from “C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Office\\OFFICE11\\SELFCERT.EXE”
4. In the dialog that pops up, Type your name.
5. Go back to Visual Basic Editor (Alt+F11 from Outlook)
6. Navigate to Tools->Digital Signature.
7. Click “Choose”
8. Select your name, Click “OK”
9. Click “OK” to come out of “Digital Signature” dialog.
10. Exit out of VB Editor (Alt+Q)

Activating the Macro

1. Restart your Outlook
2. When asked about macros, select “Enable Macros”

Test

1. Try sending an email with empty subject to yourself, to test if everything works.
2. Type “attach” or “attached” in email body and send email to yourself without actually attaching any file.

.. finally “The Code”

Please refer to my earlier post here