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tomcat webapp and eclipse
Dear Sirs,
Currently I'm developing a webapp in eclipse running on a tomcat
instance. When I edit a .html or a .java file in eclipse, the
modification can be immediately observed (because Automatic building is
turned on in Eclipse and I'm using a context file that specifies the
docbase of the context as the ouput directory of Eclipse).
Now, I'd like to convert the project to use maven and preserve the above
way of development. How to do this?
The problem is that if I place stuff into the /src/main/webapp
directory, it does not get copied to /target/classes, which means I
cannot use target/classes as the docbase of the context.
Since my pom specifies war as a packaging mode,
/target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT contains the exploded WAR contents. If I
specify this directory as a docbase for the tomcat context, everything
works as intended, the only problem is that if I edit something in
eclipse, the changes will be only visible after doing a mvn package..
Anyone has a solution for this?
What about Jetty, is there a solution for that too?
Best regards,
Istvan
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RE: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Martin Gainty <mg...@hotmail.com>.
is the file in the repo?
did you apprise eclipse of your maven M2_REPO location?
Goto Window -> Preferences -> Java -> build path -> classpath variable -> New
Name M2_REPO
Path /path/to/your/.m2/repository
http://wiki.foochal.org/index.php/Maven_FAQ#Generating_an_eclipse_project_from_a_maven_project
HTH
Martin
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> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 05:10:09 -0700
> From: eu@md.pp.ru
> To: users@maven.apache.org
> Subject: Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
>
>
>
> Istvan Devai wrote:
> >
> > I've tried this. I've configured Jetty as a WTP server and added a Jetty
> > context file to point to /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT. It worked, however,
> > if I edited a random .html file in Eclipse, these changes were not
> > copied to /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT, only after I ran mvn package.
> > How would you automate this? Maybe using one of the maven eclipse plugins?
> >
>
> If you are doing your development with Eclipse and WTP, you may want to
> consider to look at Maven integration for Eclipse, such as m2eclipse.
> http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/
>
> See, for example, WTP mini how to at
> http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/WTP+mini+howto
>
> regards,
> Eugene
>
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Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Eugene Kuleshov <eu...@md.pp.ru>.
Istvan Devai wrote:
>
> I've tried this. I've configured Jetty as a WTP server and added a Jetty
> context file to point to /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT. It worked, however,
> if I edited a random .html file in Eclipse, these changes were not
> copied to /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT, only after I ran mvn package.
> How would you automate this? Maybe using one of the maven eclipse plugins?
>
If you are doing your development with Eclipse and WTP, you may want to
consider to look at Maven integration for Eclipse, such as m2eclipse.
http://m2eclipse.codehaus.org/
See, for example, WTP mini how to at
http://docs.codehaus.org/display/M2ECLIPSE/WTP+mini+howto
regards,
Eugene
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Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Istvan Devai <is...@istvandevai.com>.
Hi Johan,
I've tried this. I've configured Jetty as a WTP server and added a Jetty
context file to point to /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT. It worked, however,
if I edited a random .html file in Eclipse, these changes were not
copied to /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT, only after I ran mvn package.
How would you automate this? Maybe using one of the maven eclipse plugins?
Regards,
Istvan
Johan Eltes wrote:
> Wtp and the maven plugin for eclipse works for me.
>
> Prereqs: wtp1.5, 2.x or 3.x
>
> 1. Define classpath variable M2_REPO in eclipse, pointing to your
> maven repo.
>
> 2. Run mvn command...
> mvn -U -Dwtpversion=1.5 eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
>
> 3. Import the generated project into eclipse
>
> Ready to go!
> Re-run ...
> mvn -Dwtpversion=1.5 eclipse:eclipse
> ...every time the pom has changed. This Can be automated by a builder
> in eclipse.
>
> /Johan
>
>
> Aug 3, 2008 kl. 13:23 skrev Devai Istvan <su...@t-online.hu>:
>
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> Currently I'm developing a webapp in eclipse running on a tomcat
>> instance. When I edit a .html or a .java file in eclipse, the
>> modification can be immediately observed (because Automatic building
>> is turned on in Eclipse and I'm using a context file that specifies
>> the docbase of the context as the ouput directory of Eclipse).
>>
>> Now, I'd like to convert the project to use maven and preserve the
>> above way of development. How to do this?
>>
>> The problem is that if I place stuff into the /src/main/webapp
>> directory, it does not get copied to /target/classes, which means I
>> cannot use target/classes as the docbase of the context.
>>
>> Since my pom specifies war as a packaging mode,
>> /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT contains the exploded WAR contents. If I
>> specify this directory as a docbase for the tomcat context,
>> everything works as intended, the only problem is that if I edit
>> something in eclipse, the changes will be only visible after doing a
>> mvn package..
>>
>> Anyone has a solution for this?
>> What about Jetty, is there a solution for that too?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Istvan
>>
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Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Johan Eltes <jo...@callistaenterprise.se>.
Wtp and the maven plugin for eclipse works for me.
Prereqs: wtp1.5, 2.x or 3.x
1. Define classpath variable M2_REPO in eclipse, pointing to your
maven repo.
2. Run mvn command...
mvn -U -Dwtpversion=1.5 eclipse:clean eclipse:eclipse
3. Import the generated project into eclipse
Ready to go!
Re-run ...
mvn -Dwtpversion=1.5 eclipse:eclipse
...every time the pom has changed. This Can be automated by a builder
in eclipse.
/Johan
Aug 3, 2008 kl. 13:23 skrev Devai Istvan <su...@t-online.hu>:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> Currently I'm developing a webapp in eclipse running on a tomcat
> instance. When I edit a .html or a .java file in eclipse, the
> modification can be immediately observed (because Automatic building
> is turned on in Eclipse and I'm using a context file that specifies
> the docbase of the context as the ouput directory of Eclipse).
>
> Now, I'd like to convert the project to use maven and preserve the
> above way of development. How to do this?
>
> The problem is that if I place stuff into the /src/main/webapp
> directory, it does not get copied to /target/classes, which means I
> cannot use target/classes as the docbase of the context.
>
> Since my pom specifies war as a packaging mode, /target/myapp-1.0-
> SNAPSHOT contains the exploded WAR contents. If I specify this
> directory as a docbase for the tomcat context, everything works as
> intended, the only problem is that if I edit something in eclipse,
> the changes will be only visible after doing a mvn package..
>
> Anyone has a solution for this?
> What about Jetty, is there a solution for that too?
>
> Best regards,
> Istvan
>
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Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Kalle Korhonen <ka...@gmail.com>.
Both Q4E and m2eclipse plugins (for Maven support in Eclipse) do resource
filtering. I suppose you could point to the webapp target directory for
src/main/webapp and then use that as a context, but in general I think
filtering all of your webapp resource files is a bad idea (because I imagine
it'd be slow and error-prone as your app grows). This is obviously web
framework dependent but for example with Tapestry, you wouldn't need to
filter the resources but the framework would allow to set the context path
for resources that need it. In a traditional servlet/jsp-environment, a CSS
file could be a JSP file.
Kalle
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Istvan Devai <is...@istvandevai.com>wrote:
> Hi Kalle,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Yesterday I spent a few hours tinkering with various setups and realized
> that mvn jetty:run basically works in the way you described below (classes
> from /target/classes, webapp resources from /src/main/webapp). This works
> nicely, and - as you kindly describe - could be a working setup for Tomcat,
> too.
>
> My only problem with this setup, is that the servlet container sees the
> unfiltered resources in the webapp directory. Imagine I've got a .css file
> in webapp, and in the CSS file, i've got an absolute path to an image. I
> would like to have a filter variable for the servlet context, so the CSS
> file will work in various deployment environments..
>
> Another possibility would be to start Jetty with mvn jetty:run-exploded
> which would use the directory /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT (the extracted war
> contents). However, the problem with this one is that when I edit a file in
> Eclipse, the changes will not be copied to this directory, only to
> /target/classes, etc. Which means, that Jetty (or Tomcat if run with
> war-exploded) won't pick up the changes until I issue a mvn package).
> Maybe a solution could be to write a shell script that monitors the
> /src/main folder and if there is any change, automatically runs mvn package?
> (which will update /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT contents with filtered
> resources, new classfiles, etc.)
>
> Best regards,
> Istvan
>
>
> Kalle Korhonen wrote:
>
>> If you use Sysdeo's Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin (
>> http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html) and its devloader, you
>> can
>> point to src/main/webapp for context, pick up the class files from
>> target/classes and the libraries from your local m2 repo directories. It's
>> both faster and more reliable than Eclipse WTP's built-in container
>> support.
>> There's also http://merve.sourceforge.net/, which offers less options
>> than
>> Sysdeo's but is more automatic. Similarly for Jetty you can use
>> run-jetty-run (http://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/). I never create a
>> war while developing a webapp and I even try to avoid container restarts
>> (several solutions exist for hot-code swapping depending on your web
>> framework and platform).
>>
>> Kalle
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Devai Istvan <su...@t-online.hu> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Dear Sirs,
>>>
>>> Currently I'm developing a webapp in eclipse running on a tomcat
>>> instance.
>>> When I edit a .html or a .java file in eclipse, the modification can be
>>> immediately observed (because Automatic building is turned on in Eclipse
>>> and
>>> I'm using a context file that specifies the docbase of the context as the
>>> ouput directory of Eclipse).
>>>
>>> Now, I'd like to convert the project to use maven and preserve the above
>>> way of development. How to do this?
>>>
>>> The problem is that if I place stuff into the /src/main/webapp directory,
>>> it does not get copied to /target/classes, which means I cannot use
>>> target/classes as the docbase of the context.
>>>
>>> Since my pom specifies war as a packaging mode,
>>> /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT
>>> contains the exploded WAR contents. If I specify this directory as a
>>> docbase
>>> for the tomcat context, everything works as intended, the only problem is
>>> that if I edit something in eclipse, the changes will be only visible
>>> after
>>> doing a mvn package..
>>>
>>> Anyone has a solution for this?
>>> What about Jetty, is there a solution for that too?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Istvan
>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Istvan Devai <is...@istvandevai.com>.
Hi Kalle,
Thank you for your reply.
Yesterday I spent a few hours tinkering with various setups and realized
that mvn jetty:run basically works in the way you described below
(classes from /target/classes, webapp resources from /src/main/webapp).
This works nicely, and - as you kindly describe - could be a working
setup for Tomcat, too.
My only problem with this setup, is that the servlet container sees the
unfiltered resources in the webapp directory. Imagine I've got a .css
file in webapp, and in the CSS file, i've got an absolute path to an
image. I would like to have a filter variable for the servlet context,
so the CSS file will work in various deployment environments..
Another possibility would be to start Jetty with mvn jetty:run-exploded
which would use the directory /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT (the extracted
war contents). However, the problem with this one is that when I edit a
file in Eclipse, the changes will not be copied to this directory, only
to /target/classes, etc. Which means, that Jetty (or Tomcat if run with
war-exploded) won't pick up the changes until I issue a mvn package).
Maybe a solution could be to write a shell script that monitors the
/src/main folder and if there is any change, automatically runs mvn
package? (which will update /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT contents with
filtered resources, new classfiles, etc.)
Best regards,
Istvan
Kalle Korhonen wrote:
> If you use Sysdeo's Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin (
> http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html) and its devloader, you can
> point to src/main/webapp for context, pick up the class files from
> target/classes and the libraries from your local m2 repo directories. It's
> both faster and more reliable than Eclipse WTP's built-in container support.
> There's also http://merve.sourceforge.net/, which offers less options than
> Sysdeo's but is more automatic. Similarly for Jetty you can use
> run-jetty-run (http://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/). I never create a
> war while developing a webapp and I even try to avoid container restarts
> (several solutions exist for hot-code swapping depending on your web
> framework and platform).
>
> Kalle
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Devai Istvan <su...@t-online.hu> wrote:
>
>
>> Dear Sirs,
>>
>> Currently I'm developing a webapp in eclipse running on a tomcat instance.
>> When I edit a .html or a .java file in eclipse, the modification can be
>> immediately observed (because Automatic building is turned on in Eclipse and
>> I'm using a context file that specifies the docbase of the context as the
>> ouput directory of Eclipse).
>>
>> Now, I'd like to convert the project to use maven and preserve the above
>> way of development. How to do this?
>>
>> The problem is that if I place stuff into the /src/main/webapp directory,
>> it does not get copied to /target/classes, which means I cannot use
>> target/classes as the docbase of the context.
>>
>> Since my pom specifies war as a packaging mode, /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT
>> contains the exploded WAR contents. If I specify this directory as a docbase
>> for the tomcat context, everything works as intended, the only problem is
>> that if I edit something in eclipse, the changes will be only visible after
>> doing a mvn package..
>>
>> Anyone has a solution for this?
>> What about Jetty, is there a solution for that too?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Istvan
>>
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Re: tomcat webapp and eclipse
Posted by Kalle Korhonen <ka...@gmail.com>.
If you use Sysdeo's Eclipse Tomcat Launcher plugin (
http://www.eclipsetotale.com/tomcatPlugin.html) and its devloader, you can
point to src/main/webapp for context, pick up the class files from
target/classes and the libraries from your local m2 repo directories. It's
both faster and more reliable than Eclipse WTP's built-in container support.
There's also http://merve.sourceforge.net/, which offers less options than
Sysdeo's but is more automatic. Similarly for Jetty you can use
run-jetty-run (http://code.google.com/p/run-jetty-run/). I never create a
war while developing a webapp and I even try to avoid container restarts
(several solutions exist for hot-code swapping depending on your web
framework and platform).
Kalle
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Devai Istvan <su...@t-online.hu> wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> Currently I'm developing a webapp in eclipse running on a tomcat instance.
> When I edit a .html or a .java file in eclipse, the modification can be
> immediately observed (because Automatic building is turned on in Eclipse and
> I'm using a context file that specifies the docbase of the context as the
> ouput directory of Eclipse).
>
> Now, I'd like to convert the project to use maven and preserve the above
> way of development. How to do this?
>
> The problem is that if I place stuff into the /src/main/webapp directory,
> it does not get copied to /target/classes, which means I cannot use
> target/classes as the docbase of the context.
>
> Since my pom specifies war as a packaging mode, /target/myapp-1.0-SNAPSHOT
> contains the exploded WAR contents. If I specify this directory as a docbase
> for the tomcat context, everything works as intended, the only problem is
> that if I edit something in eclipse, the changes will be only visible after
> doing a mvn package..
>
> Anyone has a solution for this?
> What about Jetty, is there a solution for that too?
>
> Best regards,
> Istvan
>
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