There is no "magic" in either Eclipse or the sysdeo plugin, so nothing will automatically be detected as a webapp. Which is actually the way I like it. I build my webapps in a project directory named build/webapps, which is the directory I zip up when I create a WAR. Tomcat can be instructed to look there - all I have to do is add a context file to TOMCAT_HOME/conf/Catalina/localhost that points to that directory.
If I was using
Maven, Maven has its own ideas on project directory layout. Eclipse and the sysdeo/tomcat combo are equally willing to work with Maven's idea of build directory structures.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.
