Eclipse Tomcat Installation

                    ECLIPSE AND TOMCAT INSTALLATION

   If you want to develop java based web sites there are lots of choices that you can select as utility tool. One of them is the apache tomcat which is actually servlet container. First, you need to set your local tomcat and you should introduce it to your eclipse ide or which ide you choose.

Download apache tomcat from this url http://tomcat.apache.org/download-55.cgi or another version from another url. And choose the package which is suitable with your operating system. If you are using core windows you can select .zip if you are using core linux/unix you can choose .tar. I was using windows during writing this short document, so i downloaded the zip one into my C:/.../. Extract all files into C:/wherever you want/ apache and do not forget, this is your tomcat installation path.

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Now open your eclipse indigo/hellios/juno ...etc that includes web developing tools plugin. Open your servers tab and lets begin to introduce your local apache tomcat to the eclipse ide. My eclipse had some servers introduced before so your server tab may come as empty however it will be full  at last.

As you can see from picture 1 there must be a servers tab and you will define your server into this tab.

If you can not see any of servers tab you should install web developer tools to your eclipse as in picture2.

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Open your HelpàInstall New Software and you can write or select the web tools appropriate with the eclipse then after you install you can see from What is already installed section as in picture 3. After you restart your eclipse open your servers tab again now continue.

In your empty servers tab click right and open new then click to Server.

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In your empty servers tab click right and open new then click to Server.

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Now you should choose the tomcat version that you downloaded before. I downloaded 5.5 version.

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Then click to next.

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As you can see above you should choose your tomcat installation path(root of apache tomcat)

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After you click next you should choose the JRE of the running tomcat this gives you the flexibility of running same tomcat with different JRE of course with different tomcat servers.

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At the end of your selection, you can test with starting the server.

Now you are ready to create a web project and deploy it to your local server and run it also export as war and you can run it on the different servers which have the same customization.