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Re: JSF app no longer deploys class files [message #475404]

Mon, 04 February 2008 17:03

Eric Rizzo

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Registered: July 2009

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David Karr wrote:
> I have no idea how it got into this state, but after recreating the
> application from scratch (just copying the source files over after
> creating the skeleton), I see the differences in the metadata files that
> make the difference. In the
> ".settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component" file, I needed to have the
> following line:
>
> <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src"/>
>
> If this happens again, if it's less practical to recreate the project,
> at least I might be able to fix it by adding this line.
>
> I would think it would be a good idea to document the schemas for these
> metadata files. I couldn't find any documentation on this file, or
> others like it. I'm sure I just didn't know where to look.
>
>

Those files are probably not documented; they're not intended for user
modification as they are internal "state" of the WST tools.

Eric

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Re: JSF app no longer deploys class files [message #475406 is a reply to message #475404]

Mon, 04 February 2008 17:12

David M. Karr

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Registered: July 2009

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The problem with amazing tools like Eclipse is that sometimes they don't
work properly. If the plugin somehow gets the internal state confused,
unless I know the hidden information about the structure of these files,
my only recourse is to just start over. If the structure of these files
was documented in a reasonable place, I'd at least have a chance of being
able to fix it without having to start over. If I make a mistake and the
result doesn't work, I'm no worse off than I was in the first place.

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Re: JSF app no longer deploys class files [message #475407 is a reply to message #475404]

Mon, 04 February 2008 17:31

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: dcarver.starstandard.org

Eric, I would hope that there is some documentation somewhere about
those files and what they are used for. Regardless if they are intended
for user modification or not, documenting the usage of those files is
important.

>> If this happens again, if it's less practical to recreate the project,
>> at least I might be able to fix it by adding this line.
>>
>> I would think it would be a good idea to document the schemas for
>> these metadata files. I couldn't find any documentation on this file,
>> or others like it. I'm sure I just didn't know where to look.
>>
>>
>
> Those files are probably not documented; they're not intended for user
> modification as they are internal "state" of the WST tools.
>
> Eric

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Re: JSF app no longer deploys class files [message #475530 is a reply to message #475407]

Mon, 04 February 2008 22:35

Eric Rizzo

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Registered: July 2009

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David Carver wrote:
> Eric, I would hope that there is some documentation somewhere about
> those files and what they are used for. Regardless if they are intended
> for user modification or not, documenting the usage of those files is
> important.

This is open source - if the WST development team didn't have reason,
motivation, time,...whatever... to document them, someone will have to
either a) open a bug report asking for it, b) do the work and submit it,
or c) both.

>
>>> If this happens again, if it's less practical to recreate the
>>> project, at least I might be able to fix it by adding this line.
>>>
>>> I would think it would be a good idea to document the schemas for
>>> these metadata files. I couldn't find any documentation on this
>>> file, or others like it. I'm sure I just didn't know where to look.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Those files are probably not documented; they're not intended for user
>> modification as they are internal "state" of the WST tools.
>>
>> Eric

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Re: JSF app no longer deploys class files [message #475532 is a reply to message #475530]

Tue, 05 February 2008 08:00

Cameron Bateman

Messages: 481
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi guys,

Thanks for copying JSF on this issue. Vis-a-vis JSF tools, other than the
source attachment problem, are there any other issues here?

I see that we have some lively discussion on source attachment here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=202177.

Regards,

Cameron

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