[ggerard]

I’d like to have several Eclipse projects (pretty much all libraries) so that another project, a MyEclipse web project, will consume their artifacts (JAR or raw classes, I don’t care which) and dependencies, and still allow me to hot deploy and whatnot when I change any of the dependent projects.

Example: I’m stepping through the web app and jump into one of my libraries and make a proposed correction. Will this change be pushed out to the app server (Tomcat in my case but arbitrary choice in general)?

Does anyone have an example project set or a pointer to one?

So far I’ve used only single, large projects within Eclipse and haven’t figured out how to do this sort of linkage. Either my search terms suck, I don’t recognize what’s being talked about if I’ve seen it in the docs, or the feature doesn’t exist.

thanks for the pointers and tips!

[Riyad Kalla]

1) Make each library project a Java Projects
2) Create your web project, make each library project a reference of the web project as well as including it on he build path.
3) Adjust your deployment settings to “Merge dependent classes into the WEB-INF/classes” dir of your webproject.
4) Setup an exploded deployment of your Web Project to Tomcat
5) Have a nice day =)

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