Tomcat 6 server creation using eclipse IDE on ubuntu

Question

I\'m having a problem running tomcat 6 with eclipse 3 in ubuntu.

I installed tomcat 6 on my machine and when I tested it using http://localhost:8080, it

Answer 1

I wrote a patch for solving this problem and it has been merged in Ubuntu and Debian. Now its possible to configure tomcat6 inside Eclipse without any pains.

In Ubuntu 11.04 you can install tomcat6-user package. Then configure a user instance of tomcat6 by running this command

$tomcat6-instance-create ~/my-tomcat-dir

A user instance of tomcat6 will be configured in ~/my-tomcat-dir directory.

Now to add tomcat6 inside eclipse to setup your development environment, simply point eclipse towards this directory and you will be ready to go.

If you are running an older version of Ubuntu, then you can simply download the latest version of tomcat6-user package from the Debian FTP: http://packages.debian.org/hu/sid/all/tomcat6-user/download