[Gary Propp]

Suddenly I can no longer create Web projects.

I have:

Mac G5 1.6GHz with 1G memory
Running MacOS 10.3.2
Eclipse 3.0M6
myEclipse 3.0M6

Here are the events as I remember them.

I created about 10 new projects after installing myEclipse 3.0M6.
I created a java project.
I deleted the java project.
I tried to create a web project. A J2ee web project choice no longer appears.

The window->preferences shows myEclipse. The myEclipse perspective appears.

I followed the special install instructions.

How can I get the ability to create a j2ee web project back again?

The backup I did last night works fine. The creation of new java project seems to have started the problem. [/list]

[Riyad Kalla]

What backup? We had a user on the forums that backed up his workspace directory by zipping it and it ended up destroying critical system files for some reason, it was very strange and we never quite figured it out.

At any rate I wonder if this may have caused the problem. Is it a possibility to export your preferences and reinstall Eclipse 3.0M6 and MyEclipse 3.7RC2 to a new location and import your preferences and see if that fixes the problem? (don’t forget to run Eclipse atleast once after installing it fresh before installing ME, that causes wierdness sometimes if you don’t)

[Gary Propp]

I used carbon copy cloner to backup my entire G5 disk to a firewire disk. The firewire disk is a bootable disk.

I reproduced the problem. Here are the steps.
– Downloaded eclipse 3.0M6.
– Started eclipse.
– Shutdown eclipse.
– Installed myEclipse.
– Started eclipse.
– myEclipse did not show in preferences.
– Stopped eclipse.
– Deleted .config
– Started eclipse.
– myEclipse now shows in preferences.
– Created a web project.
– Created a java project.
– Ran java project.
– Deleted java project.
– Went to create another web project.
– No j2ee project choice was present.

What do you want me to do next?

[Riyad Kalla]

That is odd.

Can you close the project, close eclipse. Go to the directory, manually delete it. start eclipse, delete the project. Create a new project and see if J2EE is available again?

[Gary Propp]

I did the following:
– Installed new eclipse and myEclipse as before.
– Created a web project.
– Created a java project.
– Closed the java project.
– Closed eclipse.
– Manually deleted java project directory.
– Started eclipse.
– Deleted java project.
– Tried to create j2ee project. J2EE project was not listed.

Is there any logging, debug code I could install?

[Riyad Kalla]

This is very strange, the log file is is in <eclipse install dir>\workspace\.metadata\.log, can you post that in here while I forward your request onto our highly intelligent support team?

[Scott Anderson]

Gary,

I’ve got a Mac and will try to replicate your findings later tonight. However, the log output will be crucial. Please note that it’s a ‘dot’ file so you’ll have to use Unix tools to get the contents since the Finder won’t show it by default.

[Scott Anderson]

Gary,

Wow! I followed your steps exactly and when I opened the wizard to create a new J2EE project (after creating, running, and deleting the Java project) I was greeted with a new project dialog that didn’t show the J2EE project group, just as you said. I was stunned!

Until I scrolled up in the left pain to reveal the J2EE group just above the highlighted Java group. 🙂 Apparently since you created a Java project last, Eclipse remembers that and conveniently scrolls you to the Java group automatically, thus scrolling the J2EE group off the top of the list and rendering it “missing”, at least temporarily.

Please let us know if this explains what you’re seeing too.

[Riyad Kalla]

There is no scrollbar or any indication that it is hiding?

[Gary Propp]

Well I am really chagrined!! I did not notice the scroll bar was partially down. After trhe scroll bar is moved up, I see J2EE. Thank you for your work.

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