[David]

New myEclipse user here (well trying it out first) and I was hoping someone could tell me how to take an existing Struts project and turn it into a myEclipse project? I have all the build files to make WAR files, etc. from when I used CVS to check out the code. However, I am not really sure how to assign the build.xml and proper paths.

Surely there is some documentation I just haven’t found yet?

thanks,
David

[David]

I should have said that I have an existing project that I need to import into myEclipse as a project. I have the code, libraries, scripts from a straight CVS checkout in Eclipse, but now that I have upgraded to myEclipse, what changes do I need to make, if any?

Or am I just making this too complicated, as I am prone to do?

[Scott Anderson]

David,

If your project is already set up as an exploded WAR archive, then you can likely just select it and select “Add Web Project Capabilities…” from the MyEclipse menu. To find out how our projects work, I’d highly recommend that you read the Working with Web Project quickstart before you do anything. It’s available here: http://www.myeclipseide.com/images/tutorials/quickstarts/webprojects/

A second option is to create a new Web Project, using our wizards, then selecting “Add Struts Capabilities…” from the MyEclipse menu after creation. THat will give you an empty struts project, configured with all the correct libraries based on the version you’re using. You can then simply copy your development artifacts (Java, JSP, etc) into the appropriate location in the new project under the web root directory. As far as your build and deployment scripts, you shouldn’t need them anymore since our projects can do all of that automatically once you set them up.

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