Re: Netbeans File Organization - Web Project

From:
Lew <com.lewscanon@lew>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:50:38 -0400
Message-ID:
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LB wrote:

I'm confused by how Netbeans (ver. 6.1) projects manage files.


This is not NetBeans-specific. This is the standard layout for source and
deployment directories for a web application. Well, nbproject/ is
NB-specific, but the rest aren't.

I'm working on a simple .jsp web application.

My project folder looks like this (I'm looking via Windows Explorer):

Website_Project
/build/


Deployment root.

/build/web/ <---


Deployment directory for web artifacts.

/build/web/META-INF/
/build/web/WEB-INF/


Don't forget about /build/web/WEB-INF/classes/ for Gosh sake!

....
/nbproject/
/nbproject/private/

/src/


Source root.

/src/conf/


Source for configuration files.

/src/java/


Source for Java files. Notice that the compiled classes don't go here either.

/src/java/package_name


Source for Java classes in the 'package_name' package.

/test/


Source for unit-test classes.

/web/ <---


Root of source for web artifacts.

Note that deployed artifacts don't go here - they go to corresponding
directories in the *deployment* tree, that is, the one rooted at build/.

/web/WEB-INF/


Etc.

/web/WEB-INF/wsdl


Etc.

Its the two different /web/ folders that screwing me up.


Once is source, the other target.

Notice that your Java classes go under build/ also.

--
Lew

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