Development mode vs web mode URL discrepancy

I saw another post on this subject, but there wasn't a satisfactory
answer for me. So...

I find it very unfortunate that my GWT application URLs are not
consistent between development mode and web mode. Our application
lives on an intranet with lots of interaction with other intranet
resources which requires us to derive resources URLs depending on the
environment that we are running in.

In our testing and production environments, our application URL is
"http://hostname:port/myapp/myapp.html". In development mode, the url
is http://hostname:port/myapp.html?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997. This
has caused us all kinds of pain in terms of fragile URL derivation
code and application breakage caused by this fragility. So, there are
two problems. One, we need a way to preserve our application context,
which is fundamental to web applications. Second, we need a way to
lose the "?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997". Surely, there is a less
intrusive way to handle this development mode information.

In another thread on this problem, a way to preserve the application
context was suggested that required giving up the nice jetty
integration that comes out of the box with the gwt eclipse plugin. I'd
hate to give this up and I'd hate to have to have our entire
development team give it up as well. They wouldn't like it.

Also, in the other thread, there was a description on how to bypass
the "?gwt.codesvr=127.0.0.1:9997". Unfortunately, looking over the
instructions a couple of times, I still don't quite understand what I
need to do.

I don't know if there is a work around for this issue; one that
doesn't require giving up the nifty jetty integration. I'd be very
grateful of course if anyone could suggest a work around.

In any case, I sure think that a future release of GWT should address
this issue.

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