I am new to Ant. I have an existing Ant project and imported into Eclipse without any issues.
My actual project structure is as below outside eclipse:
But after importing into eclipse, I can see only src folder and build.xml and referenced libraries folder. I could not see other folders inside eclipse. It is web application and EAR file is created.
Do i need to convert the project as eclipse project to see all the folders? Like eclipse:eclipse for maven projects is there any command for Ant projects? Please help me.
Thanks!
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Recently i have received a project as a zip. I have unzipped and now i want to import the same in eclipse. But am unable to identify what type of project(maven, java, gradle, etc) it is. I have tried importing as existing project into work-space. But its not identifying as a project when searching in eclipse.
For maven projects, it will have a pom.xml, this one don't have one.
Similarly is there any other ways to identify what type of project it is from the project folder?
Thanks in advance!
I have received partial answer from the commends of #Sangeeta and #carchingUp. I want to add all details to a single answer so that it will be helpful to others.
Inputs from Sangeeta: if pom.xml is present you can infer its a maven project. If build.sbt, then its an sbt project. If build.gradle, You can know its a gradle project and build.xml for ant projects
In my case i was having build.xml from which we can identify as ant project.
When you import the project as ant project to eclipse and if you have the below scenario,
"package name is com.abc.xyz, present in src/main/java and when importing as ant project, main.java.com.abc.xyz becomes the project and am getting error for all the java files for package name mismatch", follow the below steps.
right click the src folder >build path >remove from build path
right click the java folder > build path > use as source folder.
My project refers to the generated pom.properties file that Maven generates in:
META-INF/maven/${groupId}/${artifactId}
Which is included (in a Jar) as a dependency in another project. When I build / package the main project with Maven outside of Eclipse, the dependency Jar is built as expected (containing the pom.properties file) and all is well.
However, when I build / run the same (parent) project within Eclipse, it's not there. What am I missing?
Using Eclipse, a Jar library of the dependency is there (in the lib folder), containing everything except the Maven generated files. So in my case:
META-INF/
META-INF/persistence.xml
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
~~~ snip ~~~
The dependency project exists in the same workspace and I have "Workspace Resolution" enabled.
Looking at the build target folder in Eclipse (\target\classes), I can see all the files that Eclipse uses for the Jar, so I can only assume that Eclipse treats it as a "regular" Java project (despite the parent project listing it as a Maven dependency in the POM) - so Maven doesn't get involved in the packaging.
How can I get Eclipse to treat the project dependency as a Maven project / so that the generated pom.properties will be included in the Jar used by the parent project?
Update
For the parent (War) project, the following structure is generated whenever I use Eclipse to build the project (using "Build Project" or "Build Automatically" not "Maven build"):
target\m2e-wtp\web-resources\META-INF\maven\${groupId}\${artifactId}\pom.properties
This is referenced in the Eclipse deployment assembly:
<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>
So that when the War is deployed to Tomcat, the META-INF\maven... structure exists at the root of the archive.
The dependency / Jar project obviously has the same "Deployment Assembly" facility in Eclipse, so I just need to figure out what creates the m2e-wtp folder on build and apply it to that project too.
Actually, I don't think you can with the default Eclipse Jar-Export.
The best you can do if you want to do it from within Eclipse is to have a Maven Build run configuration which doesn't do much differently than using Maven outside Eclipse. But at least you have a button in Eclipse to click do generate the jar, if that's the main reason. But the normal Eclipse functionality to produce a jar (File > Export...) ignores all Maven settings.
Workspace Resolution only works for compiling and running code, but not for other Maven functionality.
I have a java project in eclipse and I'm using ivy dependency manager outside of eclipse, so I have directory structures full of various jar files. Is there a simple way to point my eclipse project's path to the ivy dirs and pick up all the jars?
I'm trying to avoid pulling out each individual jar into my eclipse project directory and hope there's a better way.
There is an ivy plugin for eclipse:
http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/
A whackier idea is to use groovy to generate the Eclipse .project and .classpath files:
Using Apache Ivy with netbeans
I am trying to import the latest Log4j2 source in my eclipse and Eclipse is not detecting it as a project. it says 'No projects are found to import'. Is there a solution for this?
My goal is to make a jar out of this source. Can i do that without the need to importing it on my eclipse(maybe like a command line solution that can make a build for me)?
Eclipse is not detecting it as a project. it says 'No projects are found to import'. Is there a solution for this?
It's a maven project, so you should import Existing Maven Project
Can i do that without the need to importing it on my eclipse(maybe like a command line solution that can make a build for me)?
A simple jar command. You can see more at Using JAR Files: The Basics. A basic command example
> jar cf log4j-sources.jar * // the * is for all files in the current directory
Note: this will not build anything. Just put everything into a jar.
If you have maven you can ask maven to generate the Eclipse .project and .classpath files.
From the log4j2 top-level folder, run mvn eclipse:eclipse
Eclipse will now be able to recognize each module as a project.
After this, to import modules in Eclipse, take the following steps for each module:
File > New > Java Project - enter module name (e.g. log4j-api) for Project name, uncheck "Use default location" and click Browse... to navigate to the location of the log4j-api module. Then click Finish on the wizard.
I have downloaded the open source edition of AlgoTrader from google code and imported it in Eclipse. There are two project algotrader and algotrader-strat. But the problem is that they are not recognized by eclipse as a java projects. I realized that when I tried to add a jar file and build the path. There is not “J” on the project folder. So my question is there a way eclipse to recognize these projects as java. And if yes how can it be done?
Thanks.
https://code.google.com/p/algo-trader/wiki/AlgoTraderDocumentation#Installation
As it uses maven, maybe you can just regenerate the Elipse project files. Something like:
mvn eclipse:eclipse
I just did a quick look at the mentioned projects (I do not know them).
From what I can see, the directories you imported are the parent projects (from a Maven point of view), whose modules are in some sub-directories. For example the algotrader project contains a sub-directory called code. This one is an Eclipse project that can be imported.