[cmikos]

What operating system and version are you running?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

&

SuSE Professional 9.0, however, I am trying to get
working with Eclipse and XP right now, I have not tried to do what
I am doing on the linux box yet

What Eclipse version and build id are you using? (Help > About Eclipse Platform)

Eclipse Platform
Version: 3.0.1
Build id: 200409161125

– Was Eclipse freshly installed for MyEclipse?

???

– If not, was it upgraded to its current version using the update manager?

Yes Eclipse and MyEclipse have been upgraded through the update manager.

– Are any other external plugins installed?

No

– How many plugins in the <eclipse>/plugins directory are like org.eclipse.pde.*

8

What MyEclipse version are you using? (Help > About Eclipse Platform > Features)

3.8.4

What JDK version are you using to run Eclipse? (java -version)

C:\Documents and Settings\cmikos>java -version
java version “1.4.2_06”
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_06-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_06-b03, mixed mode)

What JDK version are you using to launch your application server?

1.4.0_01

What steps did you take that resulted in the issue?

‘File’ -> ‘New’ -> ‘Project’ -> ‘J2EE’ -> ‘Web Project’

What application server are you using?

Tomcat 5.0.12

Are there any exceptions in the Eclipse log file? (<workspace>/.metadata/.log)

I don’t have a directory called ‘.metadata’
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Hello:

I tried to find some paid support but could not, as my questions do not really refer to problems with MyEclipse, rather my inexperience with the products.

I am trying to use MyEclipse with an existing J2EE project using ‘File’ -> ‘New’ -> ‘Project’ -> ‘J2EE’ -> ‘Web Project’ wizard, so that my project still conforms to the directory structure detailed in the general purpose build script

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/build.xml.txt

(I have never used an IDE…I used textPad to develop this app, so please be gentle)

I have a working directory i.e.

/home/username/testapp (which contains my build.xml file for ant which I am using to ‘dist’)

Which contains:

/home/username/testapp/src
/home/username/testapp/src/testapp
/home/username/testapp/src/testapp/domain
/home/username/testapp/src/testapp/util
/home/username/testapp/src/testapp/web (contains servlets)
/home/username/testapp/src/testapp/web/taglib
/home/username/testapp/web (contains jsp & html) /home/username/testapp/docs (empty 4 now)

/home/username/testapp/build } output of ant target
/home/username/testapp/dist } output of ant target

Would like to exclude these from the project list?

Then my deploy directory(to tomcat5):

/opt/jakarta/tomcat/webapps/testapp

I tried

Project Name — testapp
Location — /home/username/testapp
Source folder — /home/username/testapp/src/testapp
Web root folder — /home/username/testapp/web Context root URL — /testapp

But I get all of these unnecessary files created in /home/username/testapp:

Why do I need these directories/files? They seem like they are trying to mirror what is already deployed by ant to my CATALINA_HOME/webapps/testapp directory. How can I better define my “Web Project Details”
to avoid unnecessary directories/files being created? i.e.:

/home/username/testapp/testapp
/home/username/testapp/testapp/src/kms (empty) /home/username/testapp/testapp/web/META-INF
/home/username/testapp/testapp/web/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
/home/username/testapp/testapp/web/WEB-INF/classes (empty) /home/username/testapp/testapp/web/WEB-INF/lib (empty) /home/username/testapp/testapp/web/WEB-INF/web.xml (not a copy of my web.xml)

I am wondering which values to use for these “Details” to avoid the above or to use the existing:
Project Name — testapp?
Location — ?
Source folder — ?
Web root folder — ?
Context root URL — /testapp?

Eventually I would like to use ant and Tomcat through Eclipse…but I am not running Eclipse on my server?

[Riyad Kalla]

Project Name — testapp? (YES)
Location — /home/username/testapp/testapp
Source folder — /src
Web root folder — /web
Context root URL — /testapp? (YES)

[cmikos]

Project Name — testapp
Location — /home/username/testapp/testapp

> I have no directory /home/username/testapp/testapp
> that directory is created by eclipse when I give it the
> following ‘Details’
>
> Project Name — testapp
> Location — /home/username/testapp
> Source folder — /home/username/testapp/src/testapp
> Web root folder — /home/username/testapp/web
> Context root URL — /testapp

Source folder — /src
Web root folder — /web
Context root URL — /testapp

My directory structure looks like this

/home/username/testapp

within that directory there are 3 others

src
web
docs

in addition to directories for output of ant targets:

dist
build

Why does another directory always get created???

i.e.

/home/username/testapp/testapp

containing mostly empty directories

src (empty)
web(containing WEB-INF/web.xml and /classes (empty) and /lib (empty) and META-INF/MANIFEST.MF

[Riyad Kalla]

The reason Eclipse is creating a subdirectory is because you can’t overlap a new project like you are trying to do, what I suggest you do is create a new Web Project in the default location, let it load up, then open (in Windows explorer or equivalent file explorer) your old project directory (/home/username/testapp) and then drag (piece of piece) the portions of the app over.

For example, drag and drop your /home/username/testapp/src contents into your /src folder of your project, make sure it all compiles. Then drag over your /home/username/testapp/web contents into your WebRoot folder (or whatever name you ended up naming the webroot dir), then drag and drop your /home/username/testapp/docs folder into your project root (the docs folder, NOT it’s contents) and then you should now have a project that looks like:

/TestAppProject
  + /src (source folder containing source from your test app)
  + /docs (containing documents for this project)
  + /WebRoot (or whatever you named it)
    + /WEB-INF
      + /classes (output dir where your /src folder is compiled to)
      + /lib (location for any libs your project needs)
      + web.xml (generated empty web.xml file for your project).

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