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Bug 125739

Summary:	[j2ee properties] Add ability to create web library project from a jar in a web project.
Product:	[WebTools] WTP Java EE Tools	Reporter:	John Lanuti <jlanuti>
Component:	jst.j2ee	Assignee:	Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Chuck Bridgham <cbridgha>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cbridgha, kaloyan, kmbauer, nagrawal, rfrost
Version:	1.5	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description John Lanuti

2006-01-30 14:15:09 EST

I would like to be able to click on a jar in my lib project and choose convert to web libary project (or something like that)
Than it will create a new Java project extract the contents of the jar into it.
and register this as a Web Libary Project for that Web Project

Comment 1 Rob Frost

2007-08-09 14:49:12 EDT

hey John - I'm not certain I follow the enhancement, but it sounds similar to the use case described in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=138648.  

Is your request now covered by the ability to mark library cp entries for "publish/export" in a utility project that is a WEB-INF/lib dependency of a dynamic web project and have those JARs end up in the WEB-INF/lib dir of the exported/published WAR?

Comment 2 John Lanuti

2007-08-09 15:24:08 EDT

Rob, basically the request was to fluff up a jar in the web lib folder of a web project into an actual java project in th workspace, then reflect this change in the web project by referencing the new project as a web library project.  If this scenario is covered, then we can dup it.

Comment 3 Rob Frost

2007-08-09 15:34:48 EDT

no, I had misunderstood (I interpreted "click on jar in my lib project" to mean "select a JAR cp entry in a dependent utility project and explode it into another Java project" - and this would be needed since publish/export for the child JARs had not previously been supported)

Comment 4 Kaloyan Raev

2008-09-01 11:52:15 EDT

Assigning to Chuck for evaluation

Comment 5 Chuck Bridgham

2008-09-02 22:59:50 EDT

No plans for this enhancement - currently this couple be done by importing into a Java EE Utility project, the same jar in the folder, the Java EE dependencies/Manifest may need to be edited for dups...   Not a request we have heard more than once.