How to test web application made using Eclipse Web Tools Project??

[j.gohel]

Hi,

I am learning to use Eclipse 3.1.2 SDK.
I have used a tutorial to make a sample web application for customer orders.

Now I have made the respective classes.

But in that tutorial it is not given how to test the application from the eclipse.

My Webserver is Apache Tomcat 4.0.1 & i am using j2se 1.4.0 .

Also when i am editing the web.xml file build by the eclipse it is giving me the following message on the console tab:

Buildfile: C:\Eclipse\Jiggi\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.js t.j2ee.ejb.annotations.xdoclet\tempAnt.xml
init:
webdoclet:

BUILD FAILED
C:\Eclipse\Jiggi\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.js t.j2ee.ejb.annotations.xdoclet\tempAnt.xml:56: taskdef class xdoclet.modules.web.WebDocletTask cannot be found

Total time: 2 seconds
What's this & when i am editing this file & adding some new elements to this web.xml it takes a lot of time??

What is happening??

So please solve my doubts mentioned above & let me know how to test my web application from the Eclipse??

Thanks,
Jignesh

[Belisarius]

I haven't used Eclipse, so I may be wrong in my answers - take them with a grain of salt.

Eclipse is basically acting as a front-end to "ant" in this case (ant being the java build tool used most often by IDEs). Ant build files define the build in xml files (in this case, tempAnt.xml). It's failing when attempting to execute the webdoclet definition in the ant file.

Now, I'm not sure if the problem is a lack of a library or a problem with the defintion itself. If I had to guess, I'd say you didn't have the xDoclet plugin installed properly.

As for the web.xml, I really don't know why editing that would be so slow in Eclipse.