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Dynamic Web Project Make sure the files listed under are under webContent folder. When you publish the content to any embeded server, it only publishes content from webContent folder. So any resource under the top level project folder, but not under webContent folder will not be published to the server. If you are using web.xml web-app descriptor 2.5, then use Tomcat 6.x/ java ee 1.6 combination because Tomcat 5.x/java ee 1.5 combination may not work with it. This is what I have seen. Running Unit Tests inside Eclipse At times I have seen different results based on how you run the unit test. This may simply be the configuration issue. So If I am in the unit test class , right mouse click and do Run As =>Junit Test, it runs fine. If I select the file from left navigation inside Package Explorer and click Run from top "Run" menu, I see the result is different and at times tests fail. Now If go and run the same test using maven command line, it is most strict an