Cannot find “New Web Application Project” option in Eclipse Luna with GWT

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I followed these instructions to install Google Web Toolkit in a freshly installed Eclipse (Luna). I have Java version 8 on Mac OS 10.7.5. I restarted Eclipse twice for good measure. I can see the following installed software:

screenshot of installed software in Eclipse

I now want to start making a GWT project as outlined here. However I can't find any "New Web Application Project button" or icon. Here's a screenshot of the dropdown menu under "New".

screenshot of drop-down menu under New

I found a previous recommendation to install from a download but this option doesn't seem to be available for Luna.

I also found these FAQs which say where the SDK is installed; indeed, I have a /Applications/eclipse/plugins/com.google.gwt.eclipse.sdkbundle_2.6.0 directory.

How can I start a new GWT project? Thanks!

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I had similar issue in Windows 7. I re-installed the eclipse then in worked. developers.google.com/eclipse/docs/faq#multiuser – nayakam
I would try to repair the file permission. Next I would start the Console app to see if there is any exception. – El Hoss
You have the 'Eclipse IDE for Java Developers' installed which does not have the web development plugins. You probably want the 'Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers' install – greg-449
Thanks greg-449 - you are right, Google's docs do indeed say 'The "Eclipse IDE for Java EE Developers" package includes all of the components you will need for web application development.' So I trashed my Eclipse and installed the EE version, and installed GWT again. But I still have exactly the same problem, with the same dropdown menu under "New" as before. Any thoughts? Thanks! – Racing Tadpole
Odd. I just did the exact same installation on my MacBook (OS 10.8) and it's working fine. Even before installing GWT, Eclipse was giving a completely different-looking menu under "New". Perhaps I didn't fully uninstall the old Eclipse on my original computer? – Racing Tadpole

2 Answers

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File -> New -> Other -> Google -> Web Application Project

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Restart your Eclipse from command prompt with -clean option as ./eclipse -clean

This should make all the GWT related views available.

Setting -clean option will remove all the OSGi and Eclipse Runtime cache data. This will also clean the caches used to store bundle dependency resolution and eclipse extension registry data.