Eclipse Cookbook

11.7. Editing web.xml in Place

Problem

You want to edit web.xml in Eclipse while keeping it in the Tomcat directories.

Solution

Link to needed files such as web.xml in your project.

Discussion

To get access to web.xml in Eclipse, even though it’s in the webapps\ch11\WEB-INF directory, you can make it a linked file. To do that, right-click the ServletInPlace project, select New→ File, click the Advanced button, check the “Link to file in the file system” checkbox, and click the Browse button. Browse to the webapps\ch11\WEB-INF directory, and click Open. Then in the New File dialog that appears, enter the name of the file to link to, web.xml, and click OK. This adds web.xml to the project, as shown in the Package Explorer at left in Figure 11-6.

You can edit web.xml to support the ServletInPlace servlet, as shown in Example 11-5.

Example 11-5. The new version of web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.
            //DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
  <display-name>Example Applications</display-name>

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>Servlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.cookbook.ch11.ServletClass</servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>ServletInPlace</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.cookbook.ch11.ServletInPlaceClass</servlet-class>
  </servlet>

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Servlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/org.cookbook.ch11.ServletClass</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

  <servlet-mapping> ...