Bug 10627

Summary:	Rebuild Deletes non-Class Resources
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Gary Murphy <glm>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Philipe Mulet <philippe_mulet>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	critical
Priority:	P2
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	2.0 M4
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Gary Murphy

2002-03-02 09:33:57 EST

I have a resources properties file located in my  WEB-INF/classes directory so
that it will be loaded by the Tomcat class loader.  When I do a rebuild, all
files in that directory are delete instead of just the *.class files.

This is a serious problem in that I am going to have to backup a copy of the
file every time it changes to avoid data loss.

Comment 1 Philipe Mulet

2002-03-04 08:30:38 EST

Can't you instead put it in a separate library folder ? The output folder is 
managed by the Java builder.

Also see JDT/Core notes (under development resources) on the output folder
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/org.eclipse.jdt.core/notes/r
2.0/output%20folder/output-folder.html

Comment 2 Gary Murphy

2002-03-04 10:32:43 EST

Not really.  It is a webapp and I need for the resource (Struts message file, by
the way) to be available to the class loader.

Comment 3 Philipe Mulet

2002-03-12 08:57:56 EST

Then you need to deploy your code in a distinct folder, see the explanation at 
the URL above.