[Bruce Petro]

What’s the best way to work with a project with MyEclipse, but also something like Dreamweaver?

For instance, should I copy or move the files into a project directory under webapps? Or should I create a link directory (seems to me Eclipse had a way to simply reference a directory located elsewhere?)?

Another thing I noticed is that links and references within a jsp begin with the project directory, for instance /myproj/images/blank.jsp while dreamweaver will look for a physical directory there named myproj – which causes it to not find the file (unless of course you create a fake copy of every thing referenced with a site-absolute address).

Is there anyone who has already sweated through these issues that can take a couple minutes to save a few days or weeks of headaches? I’d be VERY grateful if so!

Thanks!

[Riyad Kalla]

bapetro,
I have never done this and don’t know what Dreamweaver needs but I would suggest setting the project up in MyEclipse as a web project, make sure everything compiles as it should with no validation errors, and then create a new Dreamweaver project, using the WebRoot as the root of your dreamweaver project… only because I *think* dreamweaver likes to start it’s project at the root of what will become the website, is that correct or no?

[Bruce Petro]

It should work correctly with the exception of the pickup of images and inclusions via URLs. IE: to perform the http to get an image file, you include the project directory “inside” the URL. However, when the webroot is the root directory, then that “sub-dir” simply doesn’t exist as a physical directory. And DW (and probably all HTML GUI editors) see they should include an image and they look in the file system starting at root + all listed sub-dirs to find that image. Therefore it fails.

Perhaps some one else browsing thru the forum might have insight??

Thanks.

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