Re: [m2e-users] m2e-wtp 0.13 war overlays - problem with publishing to s

[Greg Thomas <greg.d.thomas@xxxxxxxxx>]

I often get those sort of errors; I find stopping the server, selecting 'Clean' (right click on the server in the servers tab), and restarting the server sorts it. 

Greg

On Tuesday, 23 August 2011, Hugi Thordarson <hugi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Fred.
> Thanks for pointing me to the .log file. I had a stack trace there that provided me some foundation for googling—and found out it was a configuration problem with my Tomcat. I intalled a fresh Tomcat 6 and used that instead, and had more luck with it that way.
> However, now I'm getting odd errors when attempting to start up the application; sometimes the app doesn't find the compiled jsp pages, and sometimes it can't find regular classes, even after I've explicitly added the projects containing them to the project's build path.
> Are there any additional steps involved in running a mvn-wtp (or war overlay) project? I should just be able to follow the following procedure, right?
> 1. Checkout the maven projects from source control
> 2. Import them into my workspace
> 3. Create a new runtime from my fresh Tomcat 6 installation
> 4. Right click on the project, select "Run As… Run on server" and run it on the new server
> 5. Enjoy the fruits of my hard labour, with automatic copying of resources and class hotswapping
> Am I missing something here?
> Cheers,
> - hugi
>
> On 22.8.2011, at 23:56, Fred Bricon wrote:
>
> The error message hints at an error in the WTP server adapter layer. I don't have enough information to point to a specific m2e-wtp issue.
> Can you look in Eclipse log file ( <workspace>/.metadata/.log ) to get more details on the exception stacktrace?
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred Bricon
>
> 2011/8/10 Hugi Thordarson <hugi@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi all.
>>
>> I'm trying out the m2e-wtp support in m2e-wtp (huzzah that it's finally there!)
>> I'm hitting a problem though. I import my overlays into the workspace (maven war projects) and then I import my web project, that depends on the war projects. So far so good.
>>
>> Then I create a new Tomcat 6 server, and attempt to publish (choosing Run as -> Run on server).
>>
>> When the server attempts to start, I get this error:
>>
>> "
>> Removing obsolete files from server
>> Could not clean server of obsolete files: null
>> java lang NullPointerException"
>> "
>>
>> Anyone have an idea what's happening? Or know where I can find some better debugging information?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> - hug
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