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May 25, 2019

Eclipse – Main class doesn’t show when exporting a runnable jar file

Sometimes when trying to export a runnable jar file in Eclipse, your main class doesn’t show up. This tutorial guides you on how to fix this issue. If it happens...

Quick guides

May 25, 2019

How to display line numbers in Eclipse

By default, Eclipse doesn’t display the line numbers in the text editor. This simple tutorial provides a step by step guide on how to activate this option. 1. Step #1...

convert a maven project to a non-maven project in Eclipse

J2EE

October 19, 2018

How to convert a maven project to a non-maven project in Eclipse

Eclipse doesn’t provide a direct way to convert a Maven web project to a non-maven structure. In this tutorial, we provide an easy 2-steps way to do this. 1- Generate...

How to change the default deploy directory of Tomcat in Eclipse

Deployment & Configuration

October 12, 2018

How to change the default deploy directory of Tomcat in Eclipse

By default, web applications are deployed under this path: “WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/wtpwebapps” . Here below we define the needed steps to change the default deploy directory of Tomcat in Eclipse. 1- Custom Deploy Directory...

How to change the default deploy path of web resources in Eclipse

Quick guides

October 12, 2018

How to change the default deploy path of web resources in Eclipse

When developing a web application in eclipse, the default deploy path of java classes is “WEB-INF/classes” and every folder defined under WebContent is automatically deployed under the root path of the application....

Top 15 Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Java Developers

Best practices / Quick guides

July 27, 2018

Top 15 Eclipse Keyboard Shortcuts for Java Developers

This tutorial shows the most commonly used keyboard shortcuts while developing a Java application using Eclipse IDE. Top 15 Eclipse shortcuts 1- CTRL-SHIFT-R: used to look for a specific resource...

How to create a web project using Maven in Eclipse

Quick guides

November 2, 2017

How to create a web project using Maven in Eclipse

In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide on how to create a web project using Maven in Eclipse. Prerequisites: Eclipse IDE (Mars release) Java 1.8 Apache tomcat 8 1....

Quick guides

November 2, 2017

How to setup Tomcat in Eclipse

In this tutorial, we provide a step-by-step guide on how to setup and configure Tomcat in Eclipse. Prerequisites: Eclipse IDE (Mars release) Java 1.8 Step-1 Download and install Apache Tomcat...

Best practices

June 27, 2017

Web service project structure

In this article we introduce the most common way for structuring a maintainable web service, our example can be used as a template for creating any web service using object oriented...