IDE problems Eclipse Ganymede, Netbeans6.1, on Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

[margaret gillon]

I am working through the online book CoreServlets. I am at the point in the examples where I need to add .jar to the projects to support
import org.apache.commons.beanutils.BeanUtils; from the Apache library. Chapter 4, BeanUtilities.java., sourcecode in online at http://volume1.coreservlets.com/archive/Chapter4.html

If I use Netbeans and point the project to where the Apache libraries are installed the BeanUtilities.java servlet compiles fine but the project will not run on Tomcat. I posted on the Netbeans forum and they said to add the individual .jar files to the project folder /WEB-INF/lib. I did that and took out the pointer to the libraries in the Apache install and now the servlet won't compile even through the Netbeans project can see the .jar files. I posted again to the Netbeans list but didn't get further suggestions.

So I thought I would try Eclipse, I have Ganymede. Eclipse sees the .jar but even though Eclipse says the Tomcat server is installed and is mapped to the Tomcat folders when I try to run a page from the project Eclipse can't load Tomcat. I know the Tomcat is a good install on my machine because Netbeans runs it just fine to test the pages I am writing.

I have had other problems adding external .jars to projects in Netbeans when I was using examples for Java Servlet Programming, 2nd Edition by Jason Hunter. Netbeans seems friendlier to me than Eclipse but I will use any IDE that works.

Any suggestions about working with this issue on Netbeans or Eclipse would be welcome.

Thanks,

[Vadiraj Deshpande]

Hi Margaret,
Can you be more specific on the errors/exceptions that you might be seeing ? When you say, NetBeans compiles the servlet fine and won't run on Tomcat, what where the errors ?

-Vadiraj

[margaret gillon]

Hi Vadiraj,

Thanks for answering. In Netbeans my Tomcat installation has problems with libraries that are added to the project. I tried putting them in several places including the project directory and the Tomcat\lib directory but Tomcat didn't find them and said the classes were missing. I have JBoss installed on my machine so I told the project to use JBoss instead of Tomcat and now the project is working and has no problems finding the extra .jar files that I added to the project. This may be a problem down the road because the actual web server has Tomcat not JBoss and I haven't tried deploying yet. (I am very new at web apps.) I have been able to access the postgresql database that is on the web server from my development machine so at least part of it is working.