Thorsten Schöning created AXIS2-5872:
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Summary: pom.xml for axis2-webapp is incompatible with Eclipse
Key: AXIS2-5872
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AXIS2-5872
Project: Axis2
Issue Type: Bug
Components: modules
Affects Versions: 1.8.0
Environment: Windows 10 Pro x86-64, JDK 1.8 x86-64, Eclipse Oxygen
Release (4.7.0),
m2e - Maven Integration for Eclipse (includes Incubating components)
1.8.0.20170516-2043
m2e - slf4j over logback logging (Optional) 1.8.0.20170516-2043
m2e connector for build-helper-maven-plugin 0.15.0.201207090124
m2e connector for maven-remote-resources-plugin 0.0.1.201411160138
m2e connector for the Maven Dependency Plugin 0.0.4.201409291703
m2e-wtp - JAX-RS configurator for WTP (Optional) 1.3.2.20170517-2015
m2e-wtp - JPA configurator for WTP (Optional) 1.3.2.20170517-2015
m2e-wtp - JSF configurator for WTP (Optional) 1.3.2.20170517-2015
m2e-wtp - Maven Integration for WTP 1.3.2.20170517-2015
Reporter: Thorsten Schöning
Attachments: Eclipse build path error axis2-webapp.png
Im trying to get the current trunk to work in Eclipse using Maven plugins and
following the guide on the project site by essentially checking out and
executing "mvn -DskipTests=true install eclipse:eclipse". This works mostly,
but one problem is the created build path for the project axis2-webapp.
pom.xml of that project references the resource ".../kernel/conf", that
resource is transferred to be an Eclipse source folder and the problem with
those is that they can't be outside the current project this way. While one is
able to link arbitrary source folders into the project, that's not what the
Maven plugins are doing. Instead they are translating the path to some absolute
one and simply adding it as is, but Eclipse uses it as some relative path
because by design all those source folder paths need to be relativ to the
current project, without leaving it. Things like ".." don't work as well in the
dialogs of Eclipse.
The file ".classpath" of Eclipse contains the following entry and you can see
how Eclipse uses that in the attached screenshots, it simply doesn't work.
Removing the resource of pom.xml resolves the issue, but I guess it's there for
some reason, you surely need the properties files of ../kernel/conf.
{QUOTE}
<classpathentry kind="src" path="C:/Users/tschoening/Documents/Eclipse/Java
Axis2/axis2/modules/kernel/conf" including="*.properties"
excluding="**/*.java"/>
{/QUOTE}
So how about putting the properties files directly in the conf folder of
axis2-webapp instead of referencing them? This would make Eclipse user's life
much easier.
While I know that copying those files is a bit bad, the only other alternatives
are svn:externals or symlinks on file system level. svn:externals don't work
with GitHub, but a lot of people seem to use your project mirror there, and
symlinks on file system level are most likely only implemented in
GIT/SVN-clients for Linux, not Windows. Windows-Eclipse users like me would
need another workaround for that problem. :-) In the end, it doesn't look like
those properties file change that often...
Would be nice if you could fix this somehow. The only workaround I have
currently is to remove that source folder manually and/or add the needed one
using other Eclipse mechanisms. But I guess you would prefer as well that
creating project files etc. works automatically as much as possible.
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