[John van Til]

Hello,

Following on from the request from sbang (1758) , I was wondering if we can now use MyEclipse to edit files (jsp and java) in a directory of our own choosing (ie under the webServer’s webApps directory), rather than under the eclipse workspace directory.

thanks

[Riyad Kalla]

No, your files need to be in your webroot someplace for MyEclipse to understand them. Otherwise you can imagine it would have no working context for Autocomplete or compilation resolution.

[John van Til]

Hello Riyad,

I’m confused between your response and the response given in the following topic (I think topic # 1758 –
Web module project configuration [Closed] , in MyEclipse Forum Index » MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench » Installation, Configuration & Upgrade )

I know that IntelliJ lets me create a project and point it to my existing webapps directory

My reading of the response to the above topic was that you were planning to provide the facility to point to my own webapps directory in release 2.8 (or did I misunderstand it?)

[Riyad Kalla]

jvt,
Can you clarify what your situation is and what you want to do? I’m not entirely clear what you are asking.

My reading of the response to the above topic was that you were planning to provide the facility to point to my own webapps directory in release 2.8 (or did I misunderstand it?)

You are correct, some of these flexibilities will get pushed back to 3.9 though.

[John van Til]

As I understand it, projects created under eclipse/myEclipse result in a directory being created under the eclipse/workspace directory, which will contain the jsp and java source files for the project.

Our product (when running for example under Tomcat), creates applications (contexts) under its webapps directory, each with their own web-Inf directory.

I would like to point myEclipse directly to my context directory under the Tomcat webApps.

( i think my request is very similar to the request named “creating project in standard tomcat directory structure”, in the Installation, Configuration & Upgrade forum)

thanks,

jvt

[Riyad Kalla]

jvt,
You are correct that this is not supported yet, mainly because we don’t allow the project root to be the webroot, if we did then you would be able to setup 1 project per webapp. However if you did that now, MyEclipse would be expecting you to provide a ‘webroot’ directory underneath the project root, and in the case of mirroring the tomcat webapps directories, this would not work.

I will send your request for this to the devs to let them know interest is rising. Thank you for your patience.

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