[yymeg]

I am working on eclipse 3.0+MyEclipse3.8. I created a web application with an ApplicationResources.properties file in it. For i18n reason, I created an external tool (a .bat file) to compile (java native2ascii) the property file.

Then something happens:

I edited and saved property file (system auto built it). Then the web project was marked as ‘deployment is out of date…’. If I deploy now, the built ApplicationResources.properties will exist in the .war file. However, I have to manually build it with my external tool. But, when I deploy the whole project after that, I cannot find the property in .war file!

My develop environment is: eclpse 3.0+myeclipse3.8+tomcat5.0.19. Anybody can help? Thanks.

[Scott Anderson]

Are you using packaged deployment? Does the same thing happen with exploded?

[yymeg]

Seems exploded mode is fine. It only happens under packaged mode.

[Riyad Kalla]

Can you check your log file for an exception? If we can’t readily find an explination, is using exploded deployment going to work for you?

Log file is under <workspace dir>\.metadata\.log

[Scott Anderson]

However, I have to manually build it with my external tool. But, when I deploy the whole project after that, I cannot find the property in .war file!

This sounds like it might be caused by not refreshing the project after your external tool runs. Can you try to manually refresh it, then redeploy as an archive to see if that fixes the problem?

[Riyad Kalla]

Ahh good call Scott.

[yymeg]

Great answer, Scott! It works! Thank your guys for the excellent help.

[Scott Anderson]

I like it when I get them right. 🙂

By the way, you can set your external tool to refresh the project automatically if you’ve installed it into Eclipse through the External Builders functionality. Please see the Eclipse doc for more details.

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