Adding maven projects to Servers added to Eclipse 3.4

[Mark Hughes]

Hi Guys,

Basically i can add a server such as Jboss, Tomcat to eclipse perfectly fine, and if i create a Dynamic Web Project it can be seen by the server and added to it for hot deployments etc, All works great

So heres the prob, I found in order to create a War file with maven, it expects the project to be in a certain structure eg

src/java/main
src/java/resources
src/java/webapp

And you put all your jsps, WEB_INF ect in the webapp folder.

Which is different to the Dynamic Web Project structure

src/java/main
WebContext

WebContext or what ever you call the folder is basicaly on the same level as src and you can put the jsps here etc.

Now a project with the maven structure can not be seen by the embedded server in eclipse and so the project cant be added for hot deploments through eclipse, instead i need to do builds etc with maven and drop the war into Tomcat myself or with a script, Anyone know how to get a mavinised Web project added as a project to a server added to eclipse

I have tried both tomcat 6.0, Jboss 4.2 and Jetty-Launcher.

best
Mark

[Mark Hughes]

Ok sorry, with further investigation, i now know that it is actually when you use the mvn eclipse:eclipse command to generate source code into an eclipse project that the embedded server in eclipse cant work, ill look for maven help.

[Viktor Hedefalk]

Any luck with this?

I think I have the same problem. Basically, I'm trying to set up a development environment where no IDE-specific stuff gets into the repository, only pom:s and code. It works great with Netbeans, but Eclipse doesn't seem to recognize that my projects are Webapps, so I can't deploy them, even though Maven builds a war as well as exploded war in target.

Please let me know if you solved your problem!

[Michael Jammy]

Sorry for bringing up an old thread, but I have the same problem. Does anyone know its solution?

[Peter Johnson]

Try installing the Sonatype Maven WTP Extra plugin from http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/sites/m2e-extras
Once installed, your Maven web apps should be publishable to servers in Eclipse

[Khalid Amiri]

You can solve this issue just by adding Dynamic Web Module facet to the project in project Properties > Project Facets.

I know its too late, but someone might benefit from it.