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See also 47288, missing properties (such as src.dir or web.docbase.dir) should be handled within web/project as they do in j2seproject or the IDE should refuse to open the project. Now it allows to open the project and then throws exceptions.
will try to fix in 40
this is no longer a problem (to my knowledge), many places were fixed in 4.1
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