Xerces and GWT Compiler

I have a maven based project that uses the jts library by
vividsolutions. jts uses an old version of xerces which is included in
the project's war (in WEB-INF/lib/).

When I go and compile this project, I get an error from the GWT
compiler. If I exclude it during compilation (using <scope>runtime</
scope> in the pom) everything compiles fine. Perhaps I don't
understand how the GWT compiler works under the hood, but I'd expect
the compile time class path to be independent from the actual
compiler's class path.

The problem comes when I want to use the hosted mode in eclipse. When
the project starts up with hosted mode, GWT uses the old xerces lib
provided by jts and throws an error. If I start the app in hosted mode
outside of eclipse using maven (mvn gwt:run) I don't get the error.
The problem with this is that I now don't have access to the debugging
capabilities of eclipse and it is a bit clunky.

There appears to be some class loading issue with the GPE that is
using the war's class path for the GWT compiler rather than have the
GWT compiler have its own class path that is unaffected by what is
used by the project.

Has anyone seen this and do you know of any workarounds?

Thanks,
Brian

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