The project layout looks fine at first sight, so I can't think of what's 
causing your application to fail in WOApplication launch/bundle-mode.

But glad to hear that you're up and running! And that the fixes to bundleless 
development work. I might just count that as a review and merge into main :).

- hugi



> On 8 Nov 2025, at 22:07, Ricardo Parada <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’m gonna summarize here. 
> 
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2025, at 3:03 AM, Hugi Thordarson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> - 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?
> 
> Yes, it has a build folder as shown below:
> 
> % ls build
> Phynance.woa
> % ls build/Phynance.woa 
> Contents
> % ls build/Phynance.woa/Contents 
> Info.plist            Resources               WebServerResources
> 
>> - 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)
> 
> It is as follows:
> 
> % cat woproject/resources.include.patternset
> Components/**/*.wo/**/*
> Components/**/*.api
> Resources/**/*%     
> 
> also In my build.properties I have classes.dir=target/classes. It used to be 
> set to “bin”. Do you think it hay has any effect on this?
> 
> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
> 
> This worked for my java launch configuration. And I think that is what I had 
> when things used to work. When I started from scratch I recreated the launch 
> configurations from zero and forgot I was using this. 
> 
> In my case I set working directory to:
> 
> ${working_dir_loc_WOLips:MyApp
> 
> This works!!!
> 
> 
>> --
>> 
>> "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).
> 
> I incorporated those two commits into our fork of Wonder. 
> 
> We are using Wonder 7.3 which we converted a while ago to use slf4j 
> throughout. That was a significant effort. 
> 
> And we also upgraded jar files in it that had been flagged by the security 
> scanning software as having vulnerabilities. 
> 
> Anyways, I just added your two commits to that version and it fixes the 
> problem. 
> 
> 
>> Cheers,
>> - hugi

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