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Tomcat/shared/lib and WTP [message #205183]

Fri, 30 November 2007 18:43

Mauro Trajber

Messages: 3
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi all,

Is there a way to load tomcat_home/shared/lib/*.jar files into Eclipse
when Tomcat is running via WTP ?
"Load into Eclipse" I means put in, both, Eclipse and Tomcat
classpaths. Like Tomcat Libraries ( automatically loaded when a new
Web Project is created ) .

I try a workaround, copying catalina.properties file found in
conf/catalina.properties to
metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp?/conf/ in my
Eclipse workspace and then edit shared.loader., but without success.

Any idea ?

Thanks

PS: Tomcat 5.0.x and Eclipse 3.3.1

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Re: Tomcat/shared/lib and WTP [message #205191 is a reply to message #205183]

Fri, 30 November 2007 18:48

Larry Isaacs

Messages: 1354
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

See if
http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Tomcat_FAQ#Why_are_classes_in_my _Tomcat_installation.27s_shared.2Flib_not_seen_by_my_Web_app lication.3F
helps. It was written for WTP 1.5.x, but applies to WTP 2.0.x except
that catalina.properties is already imported. You can modify the
shared.loader property to replace "${catalina.base}" with
"${catalina.home}" or append strings that use "${catalina.home}".

Cheers,
Larry

Mauro wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a way to load tomcat_home/shared/lib/*.jar files into Eclipse
> when Tomcat is running via WTP ?
> "Load into Eclipse" I means put in, both, Eclipse and Tomcat
> classpaths. Like Tomcat Libraries ( automatically loaded when a new
> Web Project is created ) .
>
> I try a workaround, copying catalina.properties file found in
> conf/catalina.properties to
> metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp?/conf/ in my
> Eclipse workspace and then edit shared.loader., but without success.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks
>
> PS: Tomcat 5.0.x and Eclipse 3.3.1
>

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Re: Tomcat/shared/lib and WTP [message #205198 is a reply to message #205191]

Fri, 30 November 2007 19:17

Mauro Trajber

Messages: 3
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

This is a workaround for runtime, right ? I also need to import *.jar into
classpath, to use autocompletion in editor and so on. Is there a way to do
it automatically ? Like WTP does with tomcat/common/lib (servlet-api, ant,
jsp-api, etc)

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Re: Tomcat/shared/lib and WTP [message #205206 is a reply to message #205198]

Fri, 30 November 2007 19:40

Larry Isaacs

Messages: 1354
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Mauro wrote:
> This is a workaround for runtime, right ? I also need to import *.jar
> into classpath, to use autocompletion in editor and so on. Is there a
> way to do it automatically ? Like WTP does with tomcat/common/lib
> (servlet-api, ant, jsp-api, etc)
>
This would be one case where you would use the the Build Path page of
the projects properties to add these jars, rather than J2EE Module
Dependencies. Doing something automatically that was also robust would
be very difficult to implement.

I would recommend creating a User Library containing the shared jars and
add that to the project's build path.

Cheers,
Larry

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