Install Tomcat
The next step is to install a version of Tomcat. I've chosen the latest release,
which currently is 5.0.16. Installation is as simple as Eclipse. You download a
zip file and unzip it in a folder. On Windows you start Tomcat by opening a DOS
window, and then run the
startup bat-file from the bin directory. The environment variable
JAVA_HOME must be set to the folder of your JDK, or the startup file will
fail. I usually insert a line in the beginning of the
startup file, and also the
shutdown file, for example:
set JAVA_HOME=c:\j2sdk1.4.1_01
In order to be able to run the "admin" and "manager"
programs in Tomcat you must define a user for this. Locate the
tomcat-users.xml file in the
conf folder, and insert this line:
<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin,manager"/>
Before proceeding you may want to start Tomcat to see if everything works. Run
the
startup bat-file from a DOS- window. This will bring up another DOS-window
for Tomcat, and when it has completed initialization you'll see:
28-12-2003 13:10:40 org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 17005 ms
In a browser you may now enter
http://localhost:8080
which will show the Tomcat welcome page:
Install the Sysdeo Tomcat plug-in
Before installing the Tomcat plug-in you should stop Eclipse and Tomcat if
they're already running.
There are a couple of Eclipse/Tomcat plug-ins available on the market. The most
well-known, and the one we'll be using in this article, is
the Sysdeo plug-in.
The plug-in is available for several versions of Tomcat and Eclipse, and it's
important to pick the one that matches your versions. For Eclipse 3.0M4 and
Tomcat 5.0.16 you should use plug-in version 2.2.1. A complete list of all
versions can be seen at this address:
http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/tomcatPlugin.html.
A release note file is available at
http://www.sysdeo.com/eclipse/releaseNotesV221.txt,
and you may find it useful to have a look at it, since it gives a feeling for
the maturity and level of ambition for the sysdeo plug-in project.
The installation of the plug-in does not differ from other Eclipse plug-ins:
After downloading the plug-in unzip it to Eclipse's "plug-ins"
directory, and start Eclipse. It's possible to customize the use of the plug-in
in various ways, which we'll see in the following. First of all you may verify
that the plug-in has been installed by selecting Help/About/Plug-in Details from the menu (see the line at the bottom of
this picture):
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