Re: Phantom Error in Deployment Descriptor

Hi Joe,

The Overview tab should definitely not be blank.  A few questions to help 
narrow things down:

If you select the project, do you see any errors or warnings in the 
"Problems" view? 

Any errors in the .log file? 

In the Rational Product Updater, on the "Installed Products" tab, what 
version of Rational Web Developer does it show you are at?

Don Yantzi
Technical Lead
WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries
IBM Toronto Lab





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[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