- Does your ".project" file contain
<nature>org.maven.ide.eclipse.maven2Nature</nature> — and a WOLips builder?
- Does your application project contain a "build" folder on disk? (should be
getting generated by WOLips). And does it look pretty much like an application
bundle or do you see something missing?
- Does woproject/resources.include.patternset properly define your resources?
(kind of pointless to ask since your build works with maven so it should be
fine — but can't hurt to ask)
Launching as a WOApplication should work if you have "generate bundles"
enabled. But if you launch as a "java application" (not a WOApplication), you
will see the error you described unless you:
1. Set the working directory for the Debug/Run configuration to
${working_dir_loc_WOLips:SW} and
2. Pass in the VM argument -DNSProjectBundleEnabled=true
--
"Generate bundles" does pretty much what it says on the tin. It activates the
WOLips builder, which generates that "build" folder in the root of your
project, containing a bundle that WOLips will constantly keep "built" as you
make changes. Your WO application will then locate everything from there.
The nicer alternative is bundleless development, meaning no generated
build-folder/bundles and resources get located directly in the project rather
than from the fake bundle in the "build" folder.
Bundleles is faster, simpler and better. But there's a bug in project Wonder
which prevents you from using bundleless with it when using maven (
https://github.com/wocommunity/wonder/issues/1025 ).
It's fixed by one of the patches I submitted yesterday, those patches exactly
being meant to ease life for those migrating to maven (everyone hits these
problems in the first steps, and I think we should really fix those).
Cheers,
- hugi
> On 8 Nov 2025, at 04:27, Ricardo Parada <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Hugi,
>
> Yes that checkbox is selected.
>
> Do you know what the checkbox is supposed to do exactly? I just want to check
> the right things are happening.
>
> By the way, the flattening of Resources you suggested fixed the other problem
> I was having.
>
> Thanks
> Ricardo Parada
>
>
>>
>> On Nov 7, 2025, at 6:50 PM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Have you activated "Generate bundles" in Eclipse Preferences -> WOLips ->
>> Build?
>>
>> - hugi
>>
>>
>>> On 7 Nov 2025, at 23:45, Ricardo Parada via Webobjects-dev
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello everyone
>>>
>>> I got all my frameworks and one of my apps building correctly with maven.
>>> They have a fluffy bunny layout but everything’s is being built correctly
>>> and the application runs fine from the command line.
>>>
>>> However, when I run it with Debug as WOApplication or as Java application
>>> it gets a NullPointerException and it seems like it does not know what the
>>> main bundle is.
>>>
>>> If it rings a bell please let me know.
>>>
>>> The funny thing is that I had it running a couple of days ago and today I
>>> decided to setup everything from scratch to document what other developers
>>> will have to do to setup their development environment for maven and now I
>>> can’t get it to launch from Eclipse.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any ideas.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Ricardo Parada
>>>
>>
