Tomcat Not Starting Through Eclipse (Timeout)

Question

I am trying to run Tomcat through Eclipse. This is something that I have done for the past several years. It was working yesterday and now it is not. The error I get is

Answer 1

I was facing same issue and followed most of the solutions provided but they didn't worked for me.

One of my senior told me the reason for the problem. Previously I created a build for staging environment using mvn clean install -Pstaging, which created a WAR file in the target folder for staging environment. Now whenever I start tomcat it was using the setting from the target to connect to the staging database server and was unable to connect (getting stuck at preparing launch delegate).

Fix: First run mvn clean install in the workspace directory and then in eclipse right click project -> Maven -> Update Project. Now run tomcat.