On Apr 14, 2010, at 7:01 AM, Nicolas Lalevée wrote:

> On Wednesday 14 April 2010 13:13:36 Eric Gulatee wrote:
>> Andrew,
>>
>> Yeah, a few times new dependencies were not pushed even though they
>> appeared in the ivy library.
>> On a sad/funny side, the WAR file does contain the deps that I am  
>> looking
>> for that seemingly don't get pushed to the WTP server.
>>
>> I guess I'll start using my build scripts to publish a WAR to an  
>> AppServer.
>
> I am not a WTP user, but what about making IvyDE retrieve [1] the  
> jars into
> the WEB-INF/lib of your eclipse project, and tell WTP about the  
> jars in
> WEB-INF/lib more than about the IvyDE container ?
> If your dependencies don't often change, it can be a good work  
> around I think.
>
> Nicolas
>
> [1] http://ant.apache.org/ivy/ivyde/history/latest-milestone/cpc/ 
> retrieve.html
>

I too have thought that retrieve might alleviate the issues, but  
admittedly hadn't yet tried it.  I have somewhat of a gut reaction  
against retrieval vs. using artifacts from cache, but I might try it  
sometime.

-Matt

>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eric G.
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Andrew Thorburn  
>> <nzipsi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm afraid I can't help you, just piping in to say that I've got
>>> basically the same problem - it doesn't always seem to publish my
>>> dependencies. I'm publishing to Jetty, not Tomcat, but even so...
>>>
>>> And even when it does publish them, it doesn't publish any new
>>> dependencies (e.g. if I build a new version (with a new filename)  
>>> of a
>>> dependency, it doesn't get picked up straight away - I typically  
>>> have
>>> to close/reopen the project for it to work). Drove me up the wall to
>>> the point where I just gave up, and began using Eclipse's remote
>>> debugging stuff to connect to Glassfish, and just completely  
>>> ignoring
>>> WTP. Yes, it means I have to undeploy/redeploy to get new things
>>> picked up by Glassfish, but it beats spending hours trying to get  
>>> this
>>> working with WTP.
>>>
>>> - Andrew Thorburn
>>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Eric Gulatee  
>>> <eric.gulatee@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> All,
>>>>
>>>> I've constantly had problems getting my dependencies declared in  
>>>> ivy to
>>>
>>> be
>>>
>>>> published to the tomcat server.
>>>> Before you answer just add the JavaEE module dep, I have already  
>>>> done
>>>> that...
>>>>
>>>> When I check my .metadata where the WebApp is being published, I  
>>>> don't
>>>
>>> see a
>>>
>>>> lib directory under WEB-INF.
>>>>
>>>> I am using eclipse 3.5, MaxOSX, IVY 2.1.0 IVYDE 2.0.0 final.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?  Any way to debug this?
>>>> I tried a few options:
>>>>
>>>> ivy with all confs
>>>> Wiped our my tomcat, forced a republish...  No effect.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> To prove I didn't miss the JavaEE module dep:
>>>> Here's my .classpath
>>>>
>>>> ?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>>>
>>>>> <classpath>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="src" output="target/classes"
>>>>> path="src/main/java"/>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources"/>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="src" output="target/test-classes"
>>>>> path="src/test/java"/>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/antlr3"/>
>>>>>         <classpathentry excluding="**" kind="src"
>>>
>>> output="target/classes"
>>>
>>>>> path="src/main/resources"/>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="con"
>>>
>>> path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/ 
>>> org.eclipse.jdt.internal.de
>>> bug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/J2SE-1.5"/>
>>>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="con"
>>>
>>> path="org.apache.ivyde.eclipse.cpcontainer.IVYDE_CONTAINER/? 
>>> ivyXmlPath=iv
>>> y.xml&amp;confs=*">
>>>
>>>>>                 <attributes>
>>>>>                         <attribute
>>>>> name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
>>>>>                 </attributes>
>>>>>         </classpathentry>
>>>>>         <classpathentry kind="output" path="target/classes"/>
>>>>> </classpath>
>>>>
>>>> Tomcat is complaining about a spring web context class..
>>>>
>>>> SEVERE: Error configuring application listener of class
>>>> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
>>>> java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
>>>> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> However...
>>>>
>>>> I do have spring-web-....  listed as a dep/jar in ivy.xml
>>>> And the jar does have the missing class...
>>>>
>>>> package org.springframework.web.context;
>>>>
>>>>> import javax.servlet.ServletContextEvent;
>>>>> import javax.servlet.ServletContextListener;
>>>>>
>>>>> /**
>>>>>  * Bootstrap listener to start up and shut down Spring's root  
>>>>> {@link
>>>>> WebApplicationContext}.
>>>>>  * Simply delegates to {@link ContextLoader} as well as to {@link
>>>>> ContextCleanupListener}.
>>>>>  *
>>>>>  * <p>This listener should be registered after
>>>>>  * {@link org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener}
>>>>>  * in <code>web.xml</code>, if the latter is used.
>>>>>  *
>>>>>  * @author Juergen Hoeller
>>>>>  * @since 17.02.2003
>>>>>  * @see org.springframework.web.util.Log4jConfigListener
>>>>>  */
>>>>> public class ContextLoaderListener extends ContextLoader  
>>>>> implements
>>>>> ServletContextListener {
>>>>
>>>> As I said, I do a few cleans, have wiped out the server.  changed
>>>> workspace.  Issue remains the same...
>>>>
>>>> I never do see WEB-INF/lib get created under the appropriate  
>>>> directory
>>>
>>> under
>>>
>>>> .metadata in my workspace.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Any thoughts?  I don't think I'm doing anything silly/obviously
>>>> wrong... I have had this flaky behaviour before where publish  
>>>> wouldn't
>>>> always publish...  It did work eventually...  [After cleans,  
>>>> Destroy
>>>> servers, change workspace]
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Eric G.
>
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