[dream_walker]

Hi all,

I have a web application that relies on the fact that it’s deployed as exploded archive. To be more specific, the application changes some content to be displayed in a dynamical manner. This means I have a directory called /documents where all the uploaded data is loaded.

The web app is configured to run on tomcat as an exploded archive.

When I start the application, I have the document directory empty. Then, through the application, I upload some documents, that now I can see in the /tomcat/webapps/myproj/documents directory.

Then I stop the tomcat (from myeclipse), and make some changes in the jsp files, and start again the tomcat. I think myeclipse deployes the data and now, in tomcat I have the /tomcat/webapps/myproj/documents empty!

Do you know if it’s possible to tell myEclipse not to overwrite this directory when redeploying (or at least to keep this tomcat directory synchronized with myProject/webFolder/documents directory)?

I think some of you might have encontered this situation in your own projects. (uploaded content as files lost when restarting myEclipse/tomcat). Pls tell me if you found a nice way of avoiding (Fixing) this problem.

Thanks alot!
Alex

[Scott Anderson]

Alex,

Right now, when a project is redeployed the entire area under its context is overwritten in the deployment. However, there is already an open enhancement request to “add” changes in the deployment rather than force a delete and overwrite.

[dream_walker]

Now, that we got on this point of: enhancement request… 🙂 I have couple of questions, maybe somebody from myEclipse will clarify some things:

1) you have started to include a lot of functionality in your product. I am interested in the following: UML Support and Database Explorer support.

Can you give us an estimation when you think the UML support will be implemented so that it could be used in a project (reverse engineering, code synchronization and so on…)

Can you also estimate when the DBExplorer will provide the Edit functionality, not only the View (I am reffering to the ER Diagrams, so that we can easily create relations…)

We want to use myEclipse (maybe to switch from jBuilder to myEclipse) on an already running project, and the basic functionality is quite good. (JSP, Servlets…) But the UML and DBExplorer with full features will be a NICE thing to have, and it will motivate some other coleagues of mine to switch to myEclipse ;).

Well… that’s all that I am interested right now… no more questions :).

[Riyad Kalla]

Can you give us an estimation when you think the UML support will be implemented so that it could be used in a project (reverse engineering, code synchronization and so on…)

4.0

You can already see alot of this functionality comming together in our Milestone builds. M3 should add round-tripping.

Can you also estimate when the DBExplorer will provide the Edit functionality, not only the View (I am reffering to the ER Diagrams, so that we can easily create relations…)

Harder to say. We aren’t trying to compete with every DB designer out there, but need to provide what our customers want. So some balancing act is needed. No ETA for editing enhancements.

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