java引用项目,Java Web Project引用另一个Java项目

I have a Java Project, for which I'm now creating a Web interface, using a Dynamic Web Project from Eclipse. The Web project consists of a single servlet and two JSP's. Something like this:

/JavaApplication

/src

/lib

/resources

/WebApplication

/src

/Servlet.java

/WebContent

/WEB-INF

index.jsp

other.jsp

Now, I need to reference JavaApplication from WebApplication, in order to use its classes to process web requests. What's the best way to accomplish this ? My idea is to create a .jar of the JavaApplication, containing all the .class files, /resources, and /libs. In this way, I could include the .jar in the web application, and I could have a single .war file that contained the entire application.

What do you think? How is this problem typically solved ?

Note: I don't want to convert the Java Project into a Web project.

解决方案

Under Eclipse, you can declare Project References for a given project, the web application in your case. To do so, right click on your web application project, then go for Properties > Project References and select the JavaApplication project. This should allow you to call code from the JavaApplication project from the WebApplication without having to build a WAR. This is a solution for development.

For standard deployment (outside the IDE), you should indeed create a standard WAR. To do so, you'll have to package your JavaApplication as a JAR including the .class files and the files under /resources but not the libraries it depends on (JARs under /lib). These dependencies will actually end up in the WEB-INF/lib directory of the WAR, beside the JAR of your JavaApplication. These steps are typically automated with tools like Ant or Maven.