[puravidaaustin]

Hello there;
I am trying to create a myEclipse project for a base of existing jsp code. I have read through the tutorial which goes into the HelloWorld.jsp example. The material there seems to go fine, and behaves as expected as described in the sample. I have Eclipse ver 2.1.0 with the 30 trial of myEclipse running on Win 2000. Below is the layout of the existing Jsp area I am trying to settup a project for.

projctYadaYadaDir
---deployDir
------myEarDir
---------myEjbJarDir
-------------META-INF
----------------EJB-JAR.xml
---------META-INF
-------------APPLICATION.xml
---------myWarDir
-------------META_INF
-----------------web.xml
-------------SomePackage1Dir
------------------aJspPage.jsp
-------------SomePackage2Dir
------------------anotherJspPage.jsp
---sourceDir
------JavaDir
---------com
------------someNameSpaceItem
----------------SomeJavaCode

I have tried to put in many many combinations for “Source Folder”, “web root folder”, “Context root URL” for setting up the project (web project). For any combination I put there I get the error pop-up dialog below:
______________________________________
‘NewProjectCreationWizard.op_err.message!’
See error log for more details.
______________________________________

The log shows an error from some null pointer issue in eclipse code. I don’t think this error is really a problem with the eclipse code, but somehow related to the values I am entering for the web project settup. Can you please tell me what values should be put in for the above directory structure?

[support-michael]

I don’t see a way to directly map MyEclipse J2EE projects directly on this physical dir structure. There are several interacting issues prevent this: 1) Eclipse does not allow overlapping projects and 2) MyEclipse does not yet support linked resources. The error you’re encountering is probably due to #1 and not being correctly surfaced by the underlying wizard logic.

I ran this question by a consultant and he says that if this is a CVS dir structure that modules can be used to checkout the files into a MyEclipse compatible local dir structure. (See the following link for CVS module info: http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs-1.11.7/cvs_18.html#SEC157).

I’m new to CVS modules. To other readers, do you have any experience with using CVS modules from Eclipse?

The project file organization needed by MyEclipse:

EAR Project
META-INF

Web Project
<src> <– use links and exclude filters in build path if needed
<webroot>
<jsp/html content>
WEB-INF

EJB Project
<src> <– use links and exclude filters in build path if needed
META-INF
<your root packages>

Note that we will soon be extending MyEclipse to support much more flexible project structuring capabilities. Until then I hope this helps.

Michael
MyEclipse Support

[kitm]

Michael,
In your response you refer to using “exclude filters in build path” which I think is something I desperately need, but I can’t find anything like that in the project/workspace/build-path properties nor in the documentation (in fact doc searches for “exclude” or “filter” come up empty). I have 2.7rc2 – is this something in 2.7GA or 3.7M?
Thanks,
-Kit

@support-michael wrote:

The project file organization needed by MyEclipse:

EAR Project
META-INF

Web Project
<src> <– use links and exclude filters in build path if needed
<webroot>
<jsp/html content>
WEB-INF

EJB Project
<src> <– use links and exclude filters in build path if needed
META-INF
<your root packages>

[support-michael]

You access exclusion filters from Java Build Path properties of your project. Select the Source tab and expand any src package folder. You should see a subnode titled “Exclusion Filters” that you can edit as needed. Also you can access Eclipse help from this page by selecting CTL-F1 to view help topics.

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