1) make sure you have a web project locally 2) make sure you have a server adapter to a AS (remote or local) 3) have adapter started, add proj to adapter 4) proj gets deployed 5) delete the project locally Result: Proj is removed from the adapter but the war is not removed from the server. The (eclipse) console shows the following stacktrace: java.io.IOException: Cannot obtain a location URI for L/seam-sample/.classpath at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.readFileEntriesWithException(JavaProject.java:2427) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.readFileEntries(JavaProject.java:2461) at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.core.JavaProject.readRawClasspath(JavaProject.java:2499) at org.eclipse.jst.common.jdt.internal.javalite.JavaProjectLite.readRawClasspath(JavaProjectLite.java:116) at org.eclipse.jst.common.internal.modulecore.AddMappedOutputFoldersParticipant.getMappedJavaOutputContainers(AddMappedOutputFoldersParticipant.java:94) at org.eclipse.jst.common.internal.modulecore.AddMappedOutputFoldersParticipant.finalize(AddMappedOutputFoldersParticipant.java:74) at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.runFinalizations(FlatVirtualComponent.java:153) at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.cacheResources(FlatVirtualComponent.java:122) at org.eclipse.wst.common.componentcore.internal.flat.FlatVirtualComponent.getChildModules(FlatVirtualComponent.java:111) at org.eclipse.wst.web.internal.deployables.FlatComponentDeployable.getExportModelChildren(FlatComponentDeployable.java:172) at org.eclipse.wst.web.internal.deployables.FlatComponentDeployable.getModules(FlatComponentDeployable.java:183) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.wtp.core.util.ServerModelUtilities.getChildModules(ServerModelUtilities.java:61) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core.server.internal.DeployableServer.doGetParentModules(DeployableServer.java:85) at org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.core.server.internal.DeployableServer.getRootModules(DeployableServer.java:67) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.internal.Server.getRootModules(Server.java:2400) at org.eclipse.wst.server.core.ServerUtil.modifyModules(ServerUtil.java:348) at org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.refactor.listeners.ProjectRefactoringListener$2.runInWorkspace(ProjectRefactoringListener.java:262) at org.eclipse.core.internal.resources.InternalWorkspaceJob.run(InternalWorkspaceJob.java:38) at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:54)