[b0rg]

I’m investigating how flexible ME is with existing project directory structures. Source comes from version control and is in some given directory structure. Before I’ve used filesystem links to map directories from version control into the project directory tree. Friday I tried it otherwise, with “Linked Folder”s. For example, the “source” or “Web-root” folder don’t exist physically in the project directory tree, but Eclipse shows it as if those directories would be there! The result is: when creating a Tomcat5 deployment, only a empty directory is created under …\webapps directory, else nothing happens. If Tomcat is started, and I press “Redeploy”, sometimes a “!” on yellow appeares, after which it’s very hard to “Remove” the deployment.

WinXP, Eclipse 2.1.2, ME 2.7RC2, JDK 1.4.2_03, Tomcat 5.0.19

This one drove me NUTS, really. Was so close to throwing it away, and you don’t want to know how many hours I’ve spent on this. 😕

Victor

[Riyad Kalla]

Victor,
Please pretend you never ran into this problem, wait for 2.7 GA (~6 days away) download and install it, and try your deployment again 😉

There was a big push to get this feature in (have the deployment tool follow linked resources and deploy their targets) and it will be in 2.7GA which is really shaping up to be a great release. We are really sorry that you ran into this the way you did (no warning or anything) and had to spend so much time on it. We are working hard on improving functionality but first and foremost improving usability, user feedback and action feedback. If you run into something like this in the future don’t hestitate to let us know so we can improve it. In this particular case, the functionality was added so it should just *work* when GA is out.

[b0rg]

no problem. i’m jumping between 2-3 computers and sometimes forget what was working initially and what not. i was irritated because i didn’t knew if it was indeed working or not. that’s why i invested so much time…

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