[Campbell, Allen T.]

For various reasons I maintain my projects on a UNC path; \\host\…\projects\projectName.

2.x MyEclipse handled this fine. I just installed Eclipse 3.0.1 and MyEclipse 3.8.2. I created a new J2EE “Web Project” in my usual UNC projects directory. The new project immediately reports 1 error in the “Problems” view:

File not found: “\host\…\projects\TestWebProject3\WebRoot\WEB-INF\web.xml (The system cannot find the path specified)”.

That message is interesting; the start of a UNC path is “\\” not “\”. Somewhere MyEclipse is losing the second \ and failing to find the web.xml file.

[Riyad Kalla]

Moving to bugs and investigating.

[Riyad Kalla]

Was able to reproduce this, thank you.

[Scott Anderson]

The workaround is simply to map the UNC path to a drive letter and use the drive letter instead of the UNC path.

[Campbell, Allen T.]

Thank you for confirming the bug. I will use the workaround.

[Riyad Kalla]

Fixed in 3.8.3

[Riyad Kalla]

Correction, this was NOT fixed in 3.8.3, current workaround is to mount UNC path as a local drive.

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