Configure WTP plugin to handle non-standard project structure

Question

I have a web app project that looks like this:

Project/
  src/main/java/...
  src/main/resources/...
  target/MyProject-0.01-SNAPSHOT/
    META_INF/...
    WEB-INF/...
    App.html
    App.css
    etc..

I want to start Tomcat from within Eclipse.
In the past when I've done web-apps the stuff that Tomcat is interested in is available in a war/ directory in the root of my project.
The WTP plugin seems to know to copy the contents of that into a hidden tomcat directory (wtpwebapps) in my workspace, then it starts Tomcat.
Now, however, it doesn't seem to be copying anything, which I suspect is because it doesn't know that it's actually in target/MyProject-0.01-SNAPSHOT/.

How do I tell Eclipse/WTP where the root of my application is?

Stik Stik · Accepted Answer · 2015-06-10T16:18:13

Eventually I found it - This is controlled by the Project->Properties->Deployment Assembly pages.

Configure WTP plugin to handle non-standard project structure

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