Upgrading your Eclipse workspace to a new version

Upgrading my eclipse workspace to a new version. This article did the trick.

Forcing a JSP to recompile

You can force Tomcat to recompile a jsp from any web brower by making a request to:

http://hostname/path/yourPage.jsp?jsp_precompile=true

The jsp_recompile parameter in the request will force the request to compile the page and load it into the ClassLoader. This is only true if you are jsps are outside of the WEB-INF folder.

How to make your webapp the Tomcat default application

It's always asked so, here's a link to the answer.

http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_make_my_web_application_be_the_Tomcat_default_application_.3F

Branching in CVS with Eclipse

Sometimes you find such a well written article on a specific topic that you feel that it just needs to be shared.

I have gone to this article on branching and merging in CVS with Eclipse numerous times for more confidence, particularly before a merge.

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-BranchingWithEclipseAndCVS/article1.html