[Gary Schiltz]

It appears that renaming a servlet class or moving it to a different package doesn’t cause the web.xml file to be updated. For example, if I create a class MyServlet in the package foo, this is added:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>MyServlet</servlet-name>
<display-name>My Servlet</display-name>
<description>What a servlet!</description>
<servlet-class>foo.MyServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

If I rename MyServlet to MyNewServlet, I would expect (perhaps incorrectly) that “foo.MyServlet” would be replaced with “foo.MyNewServlet” in the above code snippet. I would also expect “foo” to be replaced with “bar” if I moved the class to the bar package.

[Scott Anderson]

You’re right. Refactoring support for web.xml files isn’t there yet. Since you’ve requested it I’ve added an enhancement request for the functionality to our internal tracking system. Thanks for the feedback.

–Scott
MyEclipse Support

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