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Hello,
In the new (beta) release of myEclipse I noticed that the WEB-INF/classes directory is hidden in the package explorer, (maybe because it’s my output folder ??). But this is also the location where I put my (application specific) properties and messages.properties files and which are therefor also hidden meaning I cannot open them anymore.
Should I put my properties file in another location or should I change the location of the build output directory?
Regards,
Olivier
PS I’m building a spring webapp and using the MyEclipse J2EE view
In the new (beta) release of myEclipse I noticed that the WEB-INF/classes directory is hidden in the package explorer, (maybe because it’s my output folder ??).
Exactly. This is actually an Eclipse restriction, the output folder has always been hidden in the package view.
But this is also the location where I put my (application specific) properties and messages.properties files and which are therefor also hidden meaning I cannot open them anymore.
Definately do not do that, those files should be placed into your source tree in the appropriate location. The build process will copy them into the output folder. When Eclipse “cleans” it’s output folder, it erases everything in it, that includes your resources files. Don’t place files in there manually, let the build process do it for you. Same goes for any project you are working on, even if you are just using Ant, you should ‘build’ your output result from a set of source folders in such a way that you can throw out the build dir and recompile the project.
Should I put my properties file in another location or should I change the location of the build output directory?
Yes definately. I know it will feel weird at first, but if you start looking through the JAR files of these bigger projects (Tomcat, JSTL, JSF, etc.) you’ll notice they all do it. Resource files (.properties, .xml, .xsd, etc.) go into the source tree into appropriate locations.
