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Snorik
Snorik

Reputation: 211

How to find out which versions of JARs were used in the eclipse project

I have inherited an eclipse project which has a couple of dependencies. There is no documentation and the maintainer is no longer available. Some of them were referenced in the project setup and I could just download the correct jars and add them. There are no further references in the build path. But now I see that there are still imports in the source code which are unresolved, like

import org.apache.cxf.*;
import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;

Here is the .project:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<projectDescription>
    <name>Server</name>
    <comment></comment>
    <projects>
    </projects>
    <buildSpec>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.javascriptValidator</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javabuilder</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.builder</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
        <buildCommand>
            <name>org.eclipse.wst.validation.validationbuilder</name>
            <arguments>
            </arguments>
        </buildCommand>
    </buildSpec>
    <natures>
        <nature>org.eclipse.jem.workbench.JavaEMFNature</nature>
        <nature>org.eclipse.wst.common.modulecore.ModuleCoreNature</nature>
        <nature>org.eclipse.wst.common.project.facet.core.nature</nature>
        <nature>org.eclipse.jdt.core.javanature</nature>
        <nature>org.eclipse.wst.jsdt.core.jsNature</nature>
    </natures>
</projectDescription>

and .classpath:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.container"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.module.container"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="WebContent/WEB-INF/lib/sqljdbc4.jar">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry exported="true" kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.ws.cxf.core.CXF_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.server.core.container/org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.runtimeTarget/Apache Tomcat v6.0"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Users/xxxx/Desktop/Server/src/libs/fontbox-1.8.16.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Users/xxxx/Desktop/Server/src/libs/pdfbox-1.8.16.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="owner.project.facets" value="java"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Users/xxxx/Desktop/Server/src/libs/log4j-1.2.17.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="lib" path="C:/Users/xxxx/Desktop/Server/src/libs/commons-lang-2.6.jar"/>
    <classpathentry kind="output" path="build/classes"/>
</classpath>

Regarding the Application Server, I checked with test environment, there is nothing special configured for Tomcat.

My questions are :

  1. how can it be that these are not visible as incorrect libary dependencies in the build path?
  2. especially when it comes to cxf, is there a way to find out which version was used?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 522

Answers (1)

user1708042
user1708042

Reputation: 1863

The javax.servlet is versione 2.5 in Tomcat 6 from your configuration:

 <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.server.core.container/org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.runtimeTarget/Apache Tomcat v6.0"/>.

and your application should simply depend on the jars included in Tomcat.

For the CXF I think you should first add a CXF runtime to your Eclipse under: Preferences > WebServices > CXF.2 Preferences > CXF Runtime. The specific version cannot be deducted from what you reported. You can look here: https://cxf.apache.org/download.html

You should consider upgrading Java, Tomcat and CXF to newer versions, since Tomcat 6 is old and in end of life since 2017.

Note: when you build your project the required CXF jars should end up in /WEB-INF/lib in you war. If you run in a Server in Eclipse they will be placed in a temproary folder, something like:

[WORKSPACE]\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\wtpwebapps\WebServiceProject\WEB-INF\lib\

Upvotes: 1

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