Tomcat Eclipse Resource: How to use Tomcat with Eclipse

Developing Web Applications using Tomcat and Eclipse

In this article, we will examine how to create a new Apache Tomcat server for use with Eclipse IDE. The below steps will create a new server that you can use to run your web applications during development.

Step 1: From File menu, select New

Step 2: In the Select a wizard popup, select ‘Server’

Step 3: Select ‘Apache’ and then Tomcat v6.0 Server ( If you want to use Tomcat v5.5 , select that version )

Step 4: Select the directory where Apache Tomcat is installed ( In this case c:\tcatserver6-r2 ).

Now the server is created and ready to use. You will see this server in the list of servers and you can start/stop/restart this server from the context sensitive menu as shown below.

Your browser may not support display of this image.If you would like to start using this newly created Tomcat server, you can select this server from the Run configurations as shown below.

We will discuss how to modify configuration of this newly created Tomcat server and common problems that developers would run into in a follow up Tomcat eclipse resource and help guide.

Comments on this post:
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 2010-01-19 21:56. #

I want to buy Tcat Server. Please call me.

 
Submitted by admin on Tue, 2010-01-19 21:44. #
This is very helpful - thank you for posting.
 

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