[oldani]

Hello,
I want to create a struts enabled web application using MyEclipse. But I want also use Maven2. In that order I want to use the maven conventions for project structure for example and use the dedicated repository for libraries. I want also structure the content of the web-inf directory as I want (for example I don’t want to have all struts xmls, tlds, web.xml,etc… in the root web-inf directory, I want a more clear structure for ex. web-inf/struts/struts-config.cml, web-inf/struts/tags/xxx.tld, etc….).
On the other hand I want to use eclipse and the myeclipse ide. How I can convince myeclipse to enable my project with struts capabilities but use the libraries from maven repository and use my directory structure in the web-inf directory for example?

Thanks a lot for any help on this question and on working with struts-myeclipse-maven2
Gianfranco OLDANI.
(Geneva-Switzerland)

[Scott Anderson]

Gianfranco,

What you’re saying you want to do sounds a little conflicted. On the one hand, MyEclipse is designed to make web development, deployment, and debugging very simple. In order to automate as much of the drugery as possible, MyEclipse (and all other IDEs) needs to rely on a set of conventions about how projects are layed out, which costs you some flexibility. So, you’ll simply have to choose what’s more important to you. Do you want to be able to lay out your web project any which way and use maven to assemble it manually, or do you want to lay it out as as an exploded WAR and let MyEclipse do the assembly, library management, deployment etc. Unfortunately, you cannot choose both. 🙂

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