Eclipse and Tomcat 7

Question

So I have an application where users can upload their documents. The problem is every time I redeploy the application (using Eclipse) this folder gets overwritten by the contents from the workspace.

How do I tell Eclipse to ignore certain folders on deployment?

Answer 1

Don't put data/content inside your application. Modify your logic to write documents to a path out of the application. like as :

   Application Path : C:\App\app.war

   Directory path : C:\App\documents