Question

This is very strange, but my WebContents folder has disappeared from the ‘Project Explorer’ view n Eclipse.

The project is a dynamic web project in Eclipse Helios running on Ubuntu Linux 10.04.

The WebContents folder was visible till sometime back. I am not quite sure what I may have messed up, but this folder is no longer visible from Eclipse. It however, does exist on the file system, and has WEB-INF, META_INF, etc.

Here is a reference to the settings file ‘org.eclipse.wst.common.component’, which contains a reference to WebContents. I don’t think anything has changed in this file.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project-modules id="moduleCoreId" project-version="1.5.0">
    <wb-module deploy-name="slides">
        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/WebContent"/>
        <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src"/>
        <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/test"/>
        <property name="context-root" value="slides"/>
        <property name="java-output-path" value="/slides/build/classes"/>
    </wb-module>
</project-modules>

Answer 1

You can add it to eclipse again by:

Right click your project, in the context menu choose Properties -> Java Build Path (Tab Source) and click Add Folder.

This usually happens if you don’t add .settings to your version control.