Re: [eclipse-dev] Eclipse Servlet Compilation problem

[Alvin Thompson <al@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Amit Gupta wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
>   I am new to eclipse and am having problems compiling a servlet.
> These are the things I have done :
> 1) Installed eclipse3.0M8
> 2) Installed Tomcat 5.0.19
> 3) Installed SYSDEO Tomcat Plugin 2.2.1
> 4) Under Windows->Prefrences->Tomcat
>  Checked Version 5.x
>   Tomcat Home : C:\Applications\Tomcat 5.0
>   Tomcat base : C:\Applications\Tomcat 5.0
>  Configuration File : C:\Applications\Tomcat 5.0\conf\server.xml
> 5) I created a Tomcat project called Tom1. Eclipse created a WEB-INF
> directory for me. It also created a lib and a src directory under it
> but no classes directory.
> 6) Under Project->Properties->Java Build Path Libraries tab, specified
> Tom1/WEB-INF/classes as default output folder.
>
> Now I created a very simple helloworld servlet under WEB-INF/src and
> created the web.xml having the servlet mappings under WEB-INF
> directory.
>
> At this point, I want to compile the servlet seperatey to test if it
> compiles. When I try to compile using Run->Run as->Java Application I
> get the error that editor does not contain a main type (which I assume
> is due to not having a main method in my servlet class).
>
> Build All and Build Project options under Project are disabled for me
> (I havent figured out how to enable it)..
>
> So am stuck at this point as my servlet cannot be compiled. Can anyone
> give me a clue as to what needs to be done ?
>
> Thanks,
> Amit
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