Description Mariano Eloy Fernández Osca 2010-09-18 04:33:58 EDT

Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

I'm trying to set up Maven + WTP to hot deploy changes onto a Tomcat 6.0 server. I'm using Tomcat's "Serve modules without publishing" options to speed up things.
To accomplish this I needed to twist a little bit MVN and JDT config to put compiled classes directly to WEB-INF/classes so 
These are the main configuration files I'm working around.

org.eclipse.wst.common.component
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
<wb-module deploy-name="mvnweb">
<wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp"/>
<property name="context-root" value="mvnweb"/>
<property name="java-output-path" value="/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes"/>
</wb-module>
</project-modules>

pom.xml
  	<outputDirectory>${basedir}/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes</outputDirectory>

Default output folder in Java Build Path is set to /src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/classes.

Everything looks fine, server starts up, but when changing a single line on a servlet a NullPointerException is thrown by org.eclipse.jst.server.tomcat.loader.WtpDirContext.file(WtpDirContext.java:209)


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set up a project as described above
2. Start up Tomcat
3. Change a single line on a Servlet and save it
4. Watch for that error stacktrace on the server's console