diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index f700a5ce55358f313861149226b15299459b809a..b8e878020a8550db9013427262c6d9b6184dd976 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ echo "compiling vipra-ui" | tee -a $LOG
 echo "-------------------------------" >> $LOG
 cd ./vipra-ui
 ./build.sh >> $LOG 2>&1
+rm -rf ../vipra-backend/src/main/public
+cp -r public ../vipra-backend/src/main/public
 cd ..
 if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
         echo "error"
diff --git a/vipra-backend/.gitignore b/vipra-backend/.gitignore
index 04c8f6dec6c4af1de6e79f5da9061d5abb293376..5060e0bfc4b4583587cd0f5d4b14e361320054c1 100644
--- a/vipra-backend/.gitignore
+++ b/vipra-backend/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 *.class
 /target/
-/src/main/webapp/public/
+/src/main/public/
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vipra-backend/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component b/vipra-backend/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
index e7bb02f746329d8c18868f884bb4b9ca909b2514..fee11a2f426f91987d99e904782e2e9c558d37a6 100644
--- a/vipra-backend/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
+++ b/vipra-backend/.settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/target/m2e-wtp/web-resources"/>
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/java"/>
         <wb-resource deploy-path="/WEB-INF/classes" source-path="/src/main/resources"/>
-        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp"/>
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/webapp" tag="defaultRootSource"/>
+        <wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/src/main/public"/>
         <dependent-module archiveName="util-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.jar" deploy-path="/WEB-INF/lib" handle="module:/resource/vipra-util/vipra-util">
             <dependency-type>uses</dependency-type>
         </dependent-module>