Re: Phantom Error in Deployment Descriptor

This happened to me once.  Jon Sayles of IBM told me to try
left-clicking on my project and pressing F5.  It worked for me.  He said
it "refreshes the product" and makes it sync itself back up.  (I don't
remember if the Overview tab was blank.  Just that everything in the DD
had red x's & I couldn't see any errors when I opened the it up.)  HTH.

Valorie

-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:05 PM
To: 'Websphere Development Studio Client for iSeries'
Subject: [WDSCI-L] Phantom Error in Deployment Descriptor

This one has lost me many hours.  Every once in a while I'll do
something
(what, I'm not sure) that will create a "phantom error" in a web
project.
In Project Navigator, the project will have an error indicator.  When I
expand the project, the only thing that shows an error is the Deployment
Descriptor.  When I expand the Deployment Descriptor, EVERYTHING in the
DD
has an error (Servlets, Servlet Mapping, Filters, et al).  However, I
can't
find what the error is, so I can't change it!

When I double-click on the deployment descriptor, I get the Web
Deployment
Descriptor editor.  It starts out on the Overview tab, which is
completely
blank.  I then go through each tab and see no errors.

The Overview tab being blank is a bit strange, but it's that way on
every
web project, errors or not.  It's been that way for so long that I
forgot
about it, and maybe that's related to my problem.  But I have created
many
web applications that work just fine, yet have blank Overview tabs.  As
a
test, I just created a completely new workspace, created a Web
Application,
and the Overview tab was blank.

Any of this ringing any bells with anyone?  And are your Overview tabs
blank
like mine?

Joe