I have a large project that I'm working on right now written primarily in .jsp. It is used primarily to enter, sort, and process data from several MySQL tables on the back-end. Unfortunately the previous coder has written it almost
entirely in JSP; to the point where almost all of the logic, database access, and other functions that should normally go in beans is written in JSP tags. Anyway, I digress...
This project was handed off to me in a NetBeans project bundle. I had a lot of issues with NetBeans, so I switched to Eclipse. The new version of eclipse seemed broken in some areas, too, so I ended up switching to editing my files with 'vim' on my Linux system, rebuilding with 'ant', and then redeploying and troubleshooting under tomcat6+apache on my local webserver.
I recently completed the first round of changes to this project. These consisted of edits only to one .jsp file; not one that is loaded immediately upon entering index.jsp of the project. When I moved on to the next section of edits, it consisted primarily of edits to one of the few JavaScript files that implements AJAX functions for the project. The source file was in
<project_home>/web/js/AjaxFunctions.js. The first few times that I implemented changes and rebuilt the project I found (with ant -v) that it was allegedly including the new .js file due to it being outdated; yet when I looked with firebug at the javascript include when I went to that portion of the project, I was still seeing the previous javascript with none of my changes implemented.
I attempted a few things to try to get it to see my changes, and although it stated that it was including it due to it being outdated, I could not see my new javascript code in firebug. So after awhile (this being my first JSP project and first time working with ant), I was running out of ideas for troubleshooting and I ended up doing 'ant clean; ant' to attempt to force a complete rebuild.
This broke the entire project. I don't even see the index.jsp login page, it just takes me immediately to the unexplained server error page; I find this rather odd being as I never made changes to any of the files that are loaded immediately upon entry into the project. I tried replacing the modified AjaxFunctions.js file with the old one and it made no difference. Upgraded ant from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1 and still nothing. Eventually I had to wipe the project directory and reinstall from the backup that I made yesterday before leaving work.
Due to my unfamiliarity with ant I'm really at a loss here. Can anybody give me some tips or ideas on what the issue might be here and where I might look to resolve this? Anything you can offer that would point me in the right direction is very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Oh, also I'm more than willing to post any bits of code and/or the build.xml file that you think may be relevant; I'm not sure what's relevant at this point due to my lack of knowledge of ant at this point.
Damon Getsman
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