Re: [jbosstools-dev] Showing no URL after deploying a Portlet project

>> Eclipse cannot import just directories and files....they are of some >> eclipse known project type. And yes they are a war - which I assume >> if you out a servlet or index.html in these actually will be served >> out as such, correct? > > The content of Portlet WARs is served by a portlet container and not by > servlet container. There may exist files like index.html, but they usually > do not make much sense standalone. They are fragments that are intended > to be embedded in some context by the portlet container. Moreover, ATM > there is no way how portlets could be accessed standalone via URL. I'm not talking about the portlets in there, but stuff that is not portlets, like servlets, html/jsf pages etc. But I guess what you are saying is that gatein gets to "mount" the war somewhere else than the servlet container. >>>> What inside these projects (which eclipse has info about) can be >>>> used to decide its not relevant to open ? >>> >>> Yes, that is what I proposed: JBT should not show any URL for >>> projects which have gatein-3.5-bom dependency in their POMs. Is >>> that doable? >> >> The stuff that figures out what is runnable doesn't have access to >> maven metadata so its not a good choice IMO. It can see files and >> classpath entries if it must. > > I see, so looking if there is a src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/portlet.xml file in the project would work, right? That is a better approach yes, but what do you expect to happen when such file is found ? Just doing "nothing" seems wrong. Maybe a dialog showing some explanation ? Any suggestion on what this would say ? Maybe something like "It looks like this project is a portlet and thus a proper URL cannot be calculated. Instead go to <something?> to find your page" ?

btw. I assume Run and Debug as should still actually start the server and in case of debug attach the debugger to it.

in any case, please open a bug in JBIDE with this request.