[Brian Godden]

There’s a chance I may be doing something wrong here… I have classes and java files in the <Project Root>/Web Root/WEB-INF/classes/<sub directories> directory before running the Tomcat 5 deployment.

Once I run the deployment, a “Java Source” folder is created in the Project Root folder and the sub directories folder under <Project Root>/Web Root/WEB-INF/classes/ is deleted so all my files are gone. I have a backup of these files so I dind’t lose them, but where should I be putting these before deployment. Seems like deleting them in such a fashion is a bug nevertheless, no?

Eclipse 3.0M6, MyEclipse 3.7RC2, Windows XP Pro. No exception in the log…

Thanks,
-Brian

[Riyad Kalla]

Brian, your project hierarchy should look like this:

+ Project Name
  + src/ <-- Java src files
  + docs/ <-- README's, LICENSE, whatever
    + api/ <-- Generated Javadoc  (Project's Javadoc dir)
  + lib/ <-- 3rd party libs you are using to build the src
  + webroot/ <-- Root of your web app, this is the root that gets deployed
    + index.jsp <-- intro page
    + /WEB-INF <-- importnat for web apps
      + lib/ <-- jars needed for your webapp
      + classes/ <-- the build target for your src/ dir above

So when you deploy, “webroot” and everything below it gets copied out to the application server. And when i say “should look like this” I mean “its a good idea to use something like this” but of course structure is really up to the programmer or team.

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