Banging My Head Against the Wall

Banging My Head Against the Wall

What I wish I knew before I started…

Tag: Eclipse

  • Spring Boot Web Application – Starting in Eclipse

    I am going through the Spring Boot Getting Started Tutorial and trying to follow the steps in Eclipse (and not STS).  I made it to the end and was thrown off a little by how to “start” it up. I wanted to create a Tomcat Server within Eclipse for the project and start.  However the…

  • Fix for Eclispe generated WAR file not including Ivy libraries

    I was using Eclipse to create a relatively simple Dynamic Web Project that used Ivy for dependency mangement.  Also, I wanted to use Eclipse’s export to a WAR feature so I would not need to write a build script.  My WAR file was created, but after deploying my web app to Tomcat and starting I…

  • Eclipse Error: project facet java 1.7 is not supported by target runtime apache tomcat v6.0

    We are upgrading some Java Projects from Java 6 to Java 7.  We use Eclipse yet still need to use Apache Tomcat 6.0.x.  After downloading and installing the a JDK 7 and changing all the necessary references in Project Preferences to Java 7 (e.g. Java Build Path, Java Compiler, etc.), I was still left with this error:…

  • Error running unit tests in Eclipse

    I was using Eclipse to run my project’s unit tests and I received this error right away: The project: MyDependantProject which is referenced on the classpath, does not exist. I took a look at my projects Java Build Path configuration, and “MyDependantProject” was listed there. Next, I took a look at the JUnit Run Configuration.…

  • Eclipse and Tomcat start up error – Error configuring application listener

    Since it is now the second time I have encountered this problem while starting up Tomcat, I thought I would write down the solution so I actually remember it. First of all, here is the error I received when starting up a Tomcat 6 server from within Eclipse: Jan 29, 2013 12:27:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart…