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Asked: 2026-05-24T16:40:04+00:00

I’m using Eclipse 3.4.2 Ganymede … with the Web and Java EE Environment add-on

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I’m using Eclipse 3.4.2 Ganymede…

with the Web and Java EE Environment add-on installed.

I have a Dynamic Web Project with a number of scripts and html pages in it.

In my HTML file, I’ve added a few scripts.

<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/dojo/dojo.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="scripts/getpoints.js"></script>

Since the getpoints.js file does not directly reference dojo.js, Eclipse’s error/warning highlightings in getpoints.js are useless.

How can I get Eclipse to detect this relationship correctly and display the correct errors/warnings?

Edit: for reference, these are the predominant errors

dojo cannot be resolved
XMLHttpRequest cannot be resolved or is not a field
ActiveXObject cannot be resolved or is not a field

as well as a few more related to specifics of the project.

Solutions:

  • I found out that if I add a number of my js files to my sources and browser globals, I solved some of my errors.

Project -> Properties -> Javascript -> Javascript Libraries -> Source -> Add File from Project`
Project -> Properties -> Javascript -> Javascript Libraries -> Global Supertypes -> Select & Reorder Libraries

  • My ajax related errors came from accidentally declaring var http.

  • Dojo’s error was minimized by the solution given below.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If getpoints.js is your own script, you could put a line at the top like:

    var dojo = dojo || {};

    That should silence the warnings.

    I think Eclipse is behaving correctly, though, because it can’t know that getpoints.js will always have dojo included in the HTML file. It’s just checking the syntax/semantics of getpoints.js and, technically, the script won’t stand on its own. Adding the above line will ‘fix’ the problem by making sure that dojo is always defined.

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