Apache Tomcat makes hosting your applications easy. The Eclipse IDE makes development easy. It's simple math. If you haven't integrated Tomcat into your Eclipse environment, you're losing out on some great enhancements to your development process.
Imagine being able to write a new servlet,
deploy it to a Tomcat server, test it, make changes, redeploy, and restart Tomcat - all within Eclipse, all without editing a single XML file by hand. Time-saver? Sanity-preserver? All of the above? You bet. Here's an easy guide to getting Tomcat and Eclipse working together, from installing the Tomcat plug-in, to configuring your first server.
In the interest of simplicity, this tutorial assumes that you've already installed:
- a JDK of version 1.4.2 or higher
- the Tomcat version of your choice (version 5.5.x or higher is recommended)
- Eclipse 3.1 or higher, along with the EMF (Eclipse Modeling Framework), GEF (Graphical Editing Framework), and JEM (Java EMF Model) components
If you need more information on installing these items, visit the
Eclipse and
Apache Tomcatdocumentation pages. And to make your Apache Tomcat environment enterprise ready, learn more about
Tcat, the leading enterprise Apache Tomcat application server.