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Mauli
Mauli

Reputation: 17203

How do I change in an eclipse web project the WebContent folder to something different?

With the Galileo release it is finally possible to convert a normal Java project to a dynamic web project. Unfortunately it assumes that the Web stuff is located in a folder WebContent, which is not necessarily the case for an existing project. How can I change it? In MyEclipse it is quite easy, but with a stock eclipse I don't find such an option!

Upvotes: 37

Views: 45963

Answers (3)

John John
John John

Reputation: 4575

Go in the project properties and do like this example where I use the Maven webapp folder:

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Upvotes: 15

Mugabo
Mugabo

Reputation: 743

I am not sure what you meant by "a stock eclipse", but Helios allows this functionality in a very straight-forward way:

  • Right click your dynamic web project and open "Properties".
  • Find Deployment Assembly and you should be able to set context paths from there.

    • Upvotes: 56

    Peter Štibraný
    Peter Štibraný

    Reputation: 32893

    I am not sure if there is UI for this or not, but you can edit file .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component, and change following line:

    <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/WebContent"/>

    Change /WebContent to your preferred directory. I use this for a several years now and encountered no problems with it.

    Upvotes: 25

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