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Is there any way to select the deploy location of a web archive? The server that I’m deploying to already has the target web application directory installed (built through an outside, complex ant file). I simply want to write my classes and jsp’s, jar them up, and copy the file to the correct directory.
The suggested deploy directory does not exist, and any attempt to deploy it is therfore going to fail. What is the ide reading to get the suggested deploy location?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The ME deployer identifies the default deployment location using the configured server connector information of the target server. So for Tomcat that location is <tom-install-dir>/webapps/<web context>. For exploded deployment the deployer will create the target directory and then copy project files to it in exploded WAR structure.
We have an open enhancement request for this feature. It is planned as a priority-2 feature for 2.8. That means, that we will add after all priority-1 features have been implemented. If it doesn’t make the 2.8 release then it will be in 2.9 for sure.
What server are you deploying to?
I’m deploying for Jboss 3.0.8. It’s not that big of a deal, I can create an ant build file to do the deployment, I was just hoping that it would be built in. The only part it would really hurt is when I’d like to step through servlet files, I’m assuming that the ide would need to deploy the files itself and that my manual deployment would not allow me to take advantage of this feature.
It’s not really a big deal, however, because as I understand it I can’t step through servlets (or jsp’s) anyway because that feature is not supported except with Tomcat 5.0 which runs a new servlet engine. Am I right about this? If so how come the features included in the JBoss IDE (an eclipse plugin) which allow stepping through jsp’s and servlets on 3.0.8 (and 3.2 and 4) are not an avaliable feature on myeclipse? It would seem if your primary audience is J2EE developers that tight integration with a true J2EE server (rather than tomcat) would be a priority.
I appreciate the quick feedback. If you could provide a tightly integrated ide with jboss my company and I would be willing to spend far more than $30 a year, we’d easily spend 10x that per developer.
It’s not really a big deal, however, because as I understand it I can’t step through servlets (or jsp’s) anyway because that feature is not supported except with Tomcat 5.0 which runs a new servlet engine.
MyEclipse will allow you to debug straight servlets even when deployed by Ant as long as you launch your server via the MyEclipse appserver connector in debug mode. You only need Tomcat5 or another JSR045 compliant server for JSP src level debugging.
If so how come the features included in the JBoss IDE (an eclipse plugin) which allow stepping through jsp’s and servlets on 3.0.8 (and 3.2 and 4) are not an avaliable feature on myeclipse?
We have discussed doing this but with J2EE 1.4 emerging, JSR045 compliant servers are becoming more the norm than the older proprietary models for JSP debugging. If a server is not JSR045 compliant then debugging is limited to the underlying Java code, not the JSP src level which is what we have focused on. Also I understand that we now support the JBoss+Tomcat5 configuration and will soon support the Sun’s new J2EE 1.4 server.
