AVAJAVA Web Tutorials

Sometimes I find myself going to the same files over and over in the file system while doing JavaSW web development. For instance, with TomcatSW, I access server.xml all the time. With OC4J on certain projects, I find myself accessing server.xml, http-web-site.xml, and data-sources.xml.

First off, let's create a basic project to store our shortcuts to files such as these.

In the New Project window, we can select General → Project and click Next.

We can then give the project a name. I recommend starting the project name with an underscore so that it will appear at the top of all your projects. Here, I name the project '_shortcuts'. Click Finish to finish creating the new project.

We can now see our new project in the Navigator view, and it appears at the top of all the projects since it begins with an underscore.

Now, let's create a link to an external file. In this example, we'll link to tomcat's server.xml file. You can right-click _shortcuts, go to New, and go to File.

Click on the Advanced button on the New File window.

Check the 'Link to file in the file system' checkbox and then click Browse... to browse to the file.

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