“SetPropertiesRule” warning message when starting

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• Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:JSFTut' did not find a matching property 7 answers

When I start Tomcat (6.0.18) from Eclipse (3.4), I receive this message (first in the log):

WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server: (project name)' did not find a matching property.

Seems this message does not have any severe impact, however, does anyone know how to get rid of it?

Answer 1

The separate XML solution never worked for me and other's recently ...

I usually follow this process and something helps:

1. Stop the server (Make sure its stopped via Task Manager, I killed javaw.exe as many times Eclipse doesn't really shut down properly)
2. Right click the Server->'Add and Remove'. Remove the project. Finish.
3. Right click the Server->'Add and Remove'. Add the project. Finish.
4. Restart see if works, if not continue
5. Double click the Server... See where its getting published (Server Path: which I think goes to a tmp# directory for me since I use an already-installed Tomcat instance I re-use, not sure if would be different if use Eclipse's internal/bundled tomcat server)
6. Right click on Server and 'Clean' ... Last one worked for me last time (so may want to try this first), Adding/Removing project worked for me other times. If doesn't work, continue ...
7. Delete all files from the Server Path and see if all files actually get built and published there (/WEB-INF/classes and other regular files in / webroot).
8. Restart Eclipse and/or machine (not sure I ever needed to get to this point)

Answer 2

Servers tab

--> doubleclick servername

--> Server Options: tick "Publish module contexts to separate XML files"

restart your server

Answer 3

I respect all the solutions given here.

But what I came to know after reading all these, we haven't observed that on which folder the struts.xml file or any configuration file which is necessary for the web application.

My SOULUTION IS:

1. copy the struts.xml file to the src folder of our project.
2. click "file-->save all" in eclipse and go click "project-->clean".
3. restart the server.

Hope the problem solved.

Answer 4

Delete the server instance from Eclipse and create a new one.

Answer 5

The solution to this problem is very simple. Double click on your tomcat server. It will open the server configuration. Under server options check ‘Publish module contents to separate XML files’ checkbox. Restart your server. This time your page will come without any issues.

Answer 6

I'm finding that Tomcat can't seem to find classes defined in other projects, maybe even in the main project. It's failing on the filter definition which is the first definition in web.xml. If I add the project and its dependencies to the server's launch configuration then I just move on to a new error, all of which seems to point to it not setting up the project properly.

Our setup is quite complex. We have multiple components as projects in Eclipse with separate output projects. We have a separate webapp directory which contains the static HTML and images, as well as our WEB-INF.

Eclipse is "Europa Winter release". Tomcat is 6.0.18. I tried version 2.4 and 2.5 of the "Dynamic Web Module" facet.

Thanks for any help!

• Richard