Question

I have several files comprising a tomcat web application that I need to import into an eclipse project so that I can easily create an EAR file from them.

I have changed the names of some folders + files for privacy reasons.

My files are currently all in the folder 'test'.

• 'test' contains some HTML and JSP files (the forms for my
  application) as well as a JavaScript .js file and a CSS file.
• 'test' also contains the folder 'WEB-INF' which contains a TLD file,
  and my web.xml file.
• 'WEB-INF' contains a 'lib' folder, with two .jar files.
• 'WEB-INF' also contains the 'classes' folder, which merely contains
  the 'helpers' folder.
• The 'helpers' folder contains all the java source code- several
  servlets, and one helper class that does database communication
  stuff.

How would I import these into a new project in Eclipse?

I want everything to import, including my js, css, jsp and html, not just the java

Answer 1

Joseph,

From eclipse you can import only ‘war’ files from the existing web application. If you have the war file you can directly do this, else you have to create a web project and manually add your files to the corresponding project folders.