[news.eclipse.webtools] Re: How to make Eclipse put jars into WEB-INF/li

[Ken <kenbeinside@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Karr wrote:
> Eclipse 3.3.2.
>
> It seems like I've battled with this before, but it escapes me now.
>
> I have a dynamic web project that I've assembled from an existing WAR.  
> I'm trying to figure out how to get the required jars for the project to 
> actually deploy into WEB-INF/lib when the WAR is constructed.  The 
> project has no errors in Eclipse, but when I export the WAR, the 
> WEB-INF/lib directory is empty.
>
> In the Eclipse project, I have a "lib" subdirectory that contains all 
> the jars, and I've put all of those jars into the build path.
>
> I've tried to use the "J2EE Module Dependencies" page, because I thought 
> this controlled what goes into WEB-INF/lib.  In that dialog, I selected 
> all the jars for this project and clicked OK.  When I then go back into 
> this dialog, all of those jars are unselected again.
>
> When I export the project to a WAR file, it leaves the WEB-INF/lib 
> directory empty.
>
> I tried to deploy the project to Tomcat 6.0.14, but the context root is 
> never available (gets 404).  I see no deployment errors in the Tomcat 
> console.
hi,David

when you import a project in J2EE Module Dependencies, it will only 
import compiled source in Dependencies project and without the jars in 
that project, in common, it's not need a folder to add the jars, you can 
copy the jars to WEB-INF/lib, eclipse will add them to classpath 
automatically when you export it to war package.